Field guide No. 058
Steep retreat
Hot springs, freshly boiled.
A copper kettle with its lid open holds a pine forest, rocks and a steaming hot spring. Bring a towel and a biscuit.
Field notePine forests do not fit in kettles, even ones with the lid off. Somebody is steeping one regardless.
- Specimen
- No. 058
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A copper kettle, just off the boil.
- Nearest existing relative
- A kettle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
The quiet spin cycleA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.