Field guide No. 1364

A walrus dozes on a pebble beach while its two tusks run on along the shore, curving away into the fog like rails. Mind the gap; it is quite a long way back.

Sleeping walrus, endless ivory arcs

Tusks, sold by the mile

A walrus dozes on a pebble beach while its two tusks run on along the shore, curving away into the fog like rails. Mind the gap; it is quite a long way back.

Field noteTusks stretch from a dozing walrus down the whole shingle beach, curving into the fog like a pair of rails.

Specimen
No. 1364
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
a foggy shingle beach with rails of ivory
Nearest existing relative
a narwhal’s tusk
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking scale