Field guide No. 740
Taut rope, wrinkled air
Pulled tight enough to crease.
A thick rope is stretched across a brick wall, and the air beneath it hangs in folds like a sheet caught on a line. Someone has pulled it too hard.
Field noteHung from a rope like washing, a patch of air creases, drapes and casts a shadow it has no surface for.
- Specimen
- No. 740
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dusty yard against a brick wall.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tow rope.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Crystalline peach on cobaltThe peach is both fruit and faceted crystal. Dessert has entered the mineral collection.
Stone swimmerA silver fish is embedded in solid rock. The quarry kept its last swimmer.
Staircase into a frozen gravel splashGravel crowns and ripples here as if liquid while still being loose dry stones.
Fur lined sandstone canyonRock does not grow hair. This gorge is sandstone at the rim, a pelt at the floor, and seamless where they join.