Field guide No. 756
Transparent flames in a glass forest
Fire, glazed.
In a pine wood, some of the trees are clear glass shaped like flames rising from the roots, still and cold. The real pines keep their distance.
Field noteFlame is moving gas, glass is still solid. These trees are both, with bark-like ridges in the shine.
- Specimen
- No. 756
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A pine wood after rain.
- Nearest existing relative
- A Scots pine.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Excavator bites the blue skySky is distance, not stuff. This one comes away in chunks under a bucket and leaves black behind it.
Woven brick swallows a shopping cartBrick is fired clay, set hard. This wall weaves like wicker and closes round a trolley.
Straight strings, warped violinA violin’s body bends into a wave while its strings stay straight. The instrument has divided the difference.
Knotted amethyst geode in quarry stoneQuartz crystals grow straight and brittle, yet these points line a rope that was tied while hard.
