Field guide No. 1372
Stump with standing growth rings
Tree, unpacked in order
A fresh stump in a wood, and beside it its growth rings stand up in a row, from the widest bark ring down to a tiny one. Like nesting dolls lined up for counting.
Field noteRings stand up beside the stump in shrinking hoops while its cut face still shows every one of them.
- Specimen
- No. 1372
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a cleared birch wood beside one fresh stump
- Nearest existing relative
- a set of embroidery hoops
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Cosmic stars in a vacant garageConcrete decks stack level on level, but these gaps show open space where the next floor should be.
Knotted river through autumn marshWater in a knot has to cross over itself, flowing above its own surface without a bridge.
Ember in the iceBurning coal at full glow, packed in ice that stays frozen against it. One of them is lying about the temperature.
Tilted water in an upright glassWater tilts sharply inside an upright glass. The diner has disagreed with gravity.