Field guide No. 090
Under the stars
Rain cancelled. Night sky instead.
An upturned umbrella on a wet cobbled street at night holds a whole starry sky, crescent moon and all.
Field noteA whole sky, moon included, collected in an umbrella below that same sky. Something is out of place.
- Specimen
- No. 090
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet cobbled street at night, after the rain stopped.
- Nearest existing relative
- An open umbrella, upside down.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.
Eau de canalCities have districts and bell towers. A perfume bottle has a stopper. This one has both.
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
Midnight sky in the laundromatA whole night sky inside one drum: the container is smaller than its contents.