Field guide No. 736
Suspended river loop over moorland
The river, crossing itself.
Seen from above a heather moor, a fast river loops back and arches clean over its own channel on a bridge of water. It saves the long way round.
Field noteWater over water, with nothing between them but the river’s own curve. Rivers don’t make their own bridges.
- Specimen
- No. 736
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A heather moor with a loch beyond.
- Nearest existing relative
- A moorland river.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Bowling ball sinking into its shadowShadows are a lack of light, not a lack of floor, yet this ball is going down into its own.
Fallen dominoes, standing shadowsToppled tiles casting upright shadows: the shadows belong to dominoes that aren’t there.
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.
Starlings perched on a sagging sunbeamStarlings perch on a band of sunlight as if it were a wire. The evening has installed a rail.