Field guide No. 1487
Sky in a red umbrella
Fair weather inside.
A broken red umbrella lies open on gravel under grey cloud, its canopy holding a bright blue sky. It has kept the good weather.
Field noteCanopy fabric holds a whole blue sky with clouds, far larger than the umbrella it sits in.
- Specimen
- No. 1487
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A stony plain under grey cloud.
- Nearest existing relative
- A paddling pool.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
A breath of cathedralA stone cathedral, nave and organ, cannot sit inside a soap bubble. This bubble carries one aloft.
Tin can opens the floorRing pulls peel back a strip of shop floor as the can’s lid, the tiles curling up like thin tin.
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
The listening dunesA horn holds sound, not the universe it is playing. This one holds both, which is too much.