Field guide No. 1391
The telephone booth’s fractured air
Bad reception, visibly
A battered telephone box stands by a desert road, and the cracks in its glass carry on out into the empty sky. The booth broke and took the air with it.
Field noteCracks from the booth’s broken panes run on into the open sky, splintering the air like a windowpane.
- Specimen
- No. 1391
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a lone phone box beside an empty desert highway
- Nearest existing relative
- a cracked windscreen
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Feathers forged into steelWhite feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.
Hollow candles, solid flamesFlames carved solid sit on hollow dripping candles: the burning part cannot be a stone and a burn.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Iron anchor, leafbound chainThe chain is iron at the anchor and leaves at the top, and each link holds the next with no point of change.