Field guide No. 758
Turquoise fish in branch shadows
A shoal in the shade.
A tree’s shadow falls across a terracotta wall, and turquoise fish swim along inside the dark branches as if they were streams. They keep to the shade.
Field noteA shadow is an absence of light, not a place. These fish swim in it as if it had depth and water.
- Specimen
- No. 758
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A sunny terracotta wall.
- Nearest existing relative
- A shadow of a tree.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Pigeon escapes a printed photographA live pigeon stands outside the photograph it has torn through. The picture has lost its subject.
Sleeping dog with fallen spotsSpots are a pattern in fur, yet here they lie on the ground as loose things that left pale gaps.
Moth at the edge of daylightDay and night are times, not sides of a sheet. Through the hole it is both at once, in one sky.
Stingray piano on the empty shoreHalf a grand piano and half a ray, joined at the lid. The lid is alive, which a lid must not be.