Field guide No. 725
Solid twilight sky in the terminal
Waiting for its connection.
Under the concrete canopy of an empty terminal at night, a block of purple sunset sky stands among the benches like a parked vehicle. The departures board has no idea where it is going.
Field noteSky has no edges and this block has six. It stands in a bay waiting like a coach.
- Specimen
- No. 725
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A concrete terminal at night.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sunset.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
Yellow gloves wring a steel chainWringing squeezes water out of cloth. This chain gives up little chains, as if steel were wet.
Two snails, one shared shellTwo snails crawl out of opposite ends of one shell. One body, two bodies; the picture cannot have both counts.
Closing time for shadowsA shadow is where light isn’t. Swept into a pile, it’s also something that is. Pick one.
Finished room, unfinished reflectionThis mirror shows a room that is finished and not finished at once, and both are the same bathroom.