Field guide No. 1494
Staircase into a frozen gravel splash
Diving board, dry.
A concrete stair ends in gravel that has splashed up into a crown and rings, held still. Somebody jumped and the ground took it like water.
Field noteGravel crowns and ripples here as if liquid while still being loose dry stones.
- Specimen
- No. 1494
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Dry scrubland at the bottom of a lone concrete stair.
- Nearest existing relative
- A splash crown in milk.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Black swan and ripples in dry grassRipples belong to water, while the swan crosses dry grass. The field has borrowed a lake’s surface.
Swallows vanish through the sky tearSwallows pass through a black slit stretched across the sky. The clouds have left a door ajar.
Lemon flames on blue enamelJuice runs out of segments that are burning, wet and alight in the same slice.
Excavator bites the blue skySky is distance, not stuff. This one comes away in chunks under a bucket and leaves black behind it.