Field guide No. 181
The horizon comes loose
Peeling at the edge.
Over a cracked white desert, the far edge of the ground lifts off the horizon and curls up into the blue sky like a strip of tape.
Field noteThe horizon is where the ground appears to end. A thing that only appears cannot peel.
- Specimen
- No. 181
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cracked white desert, at the edge of seeing.
- Nearest existing relative
- A desert, and masking tape.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
A soap-sized desert in the mirrorThe mirror shows a different dish than the one in front of it, and a desert the size of soap. Two faults.
The missing beamA beam of light is light. Solid enough to lift a chunk out and leave it on a seat, it’s also not.
A hole in the orchardDusk round the tree, full night through it. One sky cannot be both hours at once.
Closing time for shadowsA shadow is where light isn’t. Swept into a pile, it’s also something that is. Pick one.