Field guide No. 730
Stag with antlers rooted in earth
Antlers, planted.
A red deer stands on an autumn hillside with antlers that bend down and run into the ground as roots. It is not going anywhere until spring.
Field noteAntlers grow up and drop off each year. These grow down, into the hill, and plainly mean to stay.
- Specimen
- No. 730
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A bracken hillside above a loch, autumn.
- Nearest existing relative
- A red deer stag.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
Crab climbs through painted drainA painted drain is flat paint on a floor. A crab climbs out of its depth, so it is a picture and a hole at once.
Volcanic eyelid across the plainGround has no eyes and eyes have no lava. This crater is plainly a closed lid, lashes and all.
Grounded cloud, suspended shadowA cloud and its detached shadow sit apart. The forecast has split itself by tone.