Field guide No. 020
Space to soak
Bring your own planet.
A clawfoot bathtub drifts through deep space, filled to the brim with a galaxy. Saturn is waiting its turn.
Field noteGalaxies run to a hundred thousand light years. The tub runs to about five feet.
- Specimen
- No. 020
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Deep space, between bath times.
- Nearest existing relative
- A clawfoot bathtub.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Under the starsA whole sky, moon included, collected in an umbrella below that same sky. Something is out of place.
Moonlight in the drawerThe moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.
A spoonful of seaA sea is, among other things, more than a spoonful. This one is both.
Cold desertDeserts are hot and wide; ice cubes are neither. This one keeps a whole desert chilled.