Field guide No. 746
The garden’s colors in the wash
Colourfast, it was not.
A white sheet on a washing line has soaked up a garden’s colours in pink, green, red and blue, and the garden around it has been left grey. Separate whites in future.
Field noteColour belongs to the flowers, not to the air near them. Here it ran off the garden into a sheet like dye.
- Specimen
- No. 746
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cottage garden on wash day.
- Nearest existing relative
- A bedsheet on a line.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Wallpaper roses take flightPrinted roses are ink on paper with no depth. These lift off as blooms and fly, which ink cannot do.
Sleeping fox, standing shadowA fox sleeps while its shadow stands upright. One of them is keeping watch.
The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
Crab climbs through painted drainA painted drain is flat paint on a floor. A crab climbs out of its depth, so it is a picture and a hole at once.