Field guide No. 394
Taking the burrow with me
Home, carried out.
In a snowy birch wood, a red fox walks away carrying the entrance of its burrow in its mouth like a ring of earth, leaving a bare patch behind. Moving day was today.
Field noteA burrow is a hole, an absence in the ground. This fox is carrying the absence away.
- Specimen
- No. 394
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A snowy birch wood.
- Nearest existing relative
- A fox’s den.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Cinema doorway to the haunted forestA screen shows a place it isn’t. This one is the place, and leaves are blowing in.
An honest reflectionA mirror showing somewhere else is a mirror and a window at once. Mud on the sink takes the window’s side.
The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
Wheelbarrow's unexpected sailboat reflectionA reflection that shows something else is not, by definition, its reflection. And yet it is.