Field guide No. 1395
Tin can opens the floor
Ring pull, floor included
A tin can sits on a shiny shop floor with its lid peeled back, and the lid is the floor itself, curling up to show grey grit inside. Pull the tab and the aisle comes with it.
Field noteRing pulls peel back a strip of shop floor as the can’s lid, the tiles curling up like thin tin.
- Specimen
- No. 1395
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a polished, empty shop aisle
- Nearest existing relative
- a sardine tin
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
Tornado trapped in a tumbleweedA tornado is wider than any weed. Caught inside one, it’s smaller than its own container.
Moons in the washerWasher drum holds a dozen full moons, cratered and stacked like dryer balls.
A spoonful of seaA sea is, among other things, more than a spoonful. This one is both.
