Field guide No. 749
The tidal channel’s shed skin
Low tide, moulting.
On a mudflat at dusk, a tidal channel has left a clear empty skin of itself lying beside its new course, ripples and all. It has grown.
Field noteWater keeps no skin to shed. This channel peeled off a clear one, every ripple kept, and moved over.
- Specimen
- No. 749
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A tidal mudflat at dusk.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tidal creek.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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Yellow gloves wring a steel chainWringing squeezes water out of cloth. This chain gives up little chains, as if steel were wet.