Field guide No. 395
The ballroom below October
Mind the dance floor.
In a chandeliered ballroom, the parquet floor has splintered open and through the hole, far below, is a misty autumn forest in red and orange. The band has stopped.
Field noteUnder a floorboard there is a cellar at most. Here a whole forest sits a floor down.
- Specimen
- No. 395
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A chandeliered ballroom.
- Nearest existing relative
- A trapdoor.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
- Season
- Slopoween. In season in October: the walk only passes it then.
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
The paperweight glacierA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
Lunar laundryThe moon is two thousand miles across, and this drum is two feet. One of them has to give.
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.