Field guide No. 1493
Spare room
Another bedroom, under the bed
Seen from the carpet, the gap under a double bed opens onto a long corridor of more carpet, lamps and doors. Whatever lives under the bed has the nicer suite.
Field noteBed frames leave a hand’s height of dark; this one hides a lit hallway longer than the room above it.
- Specimen
- No. 1493
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Under a guest bed, past the slippers.
- Nearest existing relative
- A crawl space.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
The listening dunesA horn holds sound, not the universe it is playing. This one holds both, which is too much.
Magnets stretch a luminous galaxyA galaxy is the largest thing on any bench. This one fits between two magnets, so it’s huge and handheld.
The lining that outgrew the shopSatin from one hanging coat’s lining sweeps over the whole workroom, far bigger than the coat that holds it.
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.