Jungle

Field guide No. 1361

Shoals of small silver fish swim in neat lines along the walls of a dry concrete channel, exactly where the waterline stain sits. The canal was drained but nobody told the fish.

Silver fish along an invisible tide

School is in; the water is out

Shoals of small silver fish swim in neat lines along the walls of a dry concrete channel, exactly where the waterline stain sits. The canal was drained but nobody told the fish.

Field noteMinnows school along a drained channel’s tidemark, swimming in water that isn’t there.

Specimen
No. 1361
Kind
Impossible (the round square kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
a drained concrete spillway with a dark waterline stain
Nearest existing relative
a shoal of sprats
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also impossible, also breaking physics