Field guide No. 410
Tornado trapped in a tumbleweed
Weather in a ball.
A tumbleweed rolls across a dry prairie with a small spinning tornado caught inside it, a real storm on the horizon. It will be let go somewhere far away.
Field noteA tornado is wider than any weed. Caught inside one, it’s smaller than its own container.
- Specimen
- No. 410
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dry prairie.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tumbleweed.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Moonlight in the drawerThe moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.
Owl in the last dandelionDandelion clocks are thumb-sized; owls aren’t. Here the seed head is both small and a nest.
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
Cold side of the pillowAn ice cave runs deeper than the pillow it opens from. Bigger inside than out, and colder.