Field guide No. 1200
Stones pulling kelp toward the surface
Buoys, but heavy.
Brown kelp underwater floats upward with a rock tied to each frond tip, bright water above and pebbles below. The stones were meant to be the anchor, and appear to have switched sides.
Field noteEach frond lifts a stone that is also meant to sink. The buoys are heavy, and still buoyant.
- Specimen
- No. 1200
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sunlit kelp forest.
- Nearest existing relative
- Kelp tied with weights.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Apple slice beyond the mirrorWhole on this side, sliced on the other, and the slice pokes back through. An apple can’t be both cut and uncut.
Sheep grazing beneath the kelpSheep graze underwater among tall kelp. They have not brought the equipment for breathing.
Blacklight campfire on the salt flatFlames are light by definition; these are black and still throw a glow onto the salt crust.
A glacier opens to summerOne doorway, two seasons side by side, both in the same air. Winter and summer can’t share a threshold.