Field guide No. 1510
The barn’s loose tooth
One wobbly board, roots and all.
A red barn on a dry field has one corner plank leaning out of the wall, its foot ending in pale tooth roots pulled from the soil. Ready for the fairy, if she brings a tractor.
Field noteBarns are built, not grown, so a plank with molar roots has no jaw it could have come out of.
- Specimen
- No. 1510
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dry field where a red barn is teething.
- Nearest existing relative
- A wobbly milk tooth.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Two snails, one shared shellTwo snails crawl out of opposite ends of one shell. One body, two bodies; the picture cannot have both counts.
The chair's impossible treeA shadow is a chair’s outline or it isn’t a chair’s shadow. This one is a tree’s, cast by a chair.
Fossil lightning across the cliffStone keeps bones and shells. A flash lasting a thousandth of a second has no body to leave, yet here it is, set.
Wallpaper beyond the wallWallpaper is defined by the wall. This pattern has left it and hangs in the air with nothing to be paper on.