Field guide No. 1362
Silver fish through frosted branches
Hoarfrost, underwater
A shrub coated in white frost crystals stands on a lake bed while a shoal of silver fish swims through its branches. Winter got in before the water did.
Field noteHoarfrost bristles on a bush that sits wholly underwater, where no frost can form, and fish weave through it.
- Specimen
- No. 1362
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a murky green lake bed beside one frosted bush
- Nearest existing relative
- a coral fan
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Black swan and ripples in dry grassRipples belong to water, while the swan crosses dry grass. The field has borrowed a lake’s surface.
Swallows vanish through the sky tearSwallows pass through a black slit stretched across the sky. The clouds have left a door ajar.
Peeling rust, goosebumped metalIron pipe under the rust is living skin, and gets goosebumps, which machinery has no nerves for.
Excavator bites the blue skySky is distance, not stuff. This one comes away in chunks under a bucket and leaves black behind it.