Field guide No. 1403
Vertical river imprint
The river left its mark, standing
A cracked dry riverbed has a tall glassy slab standing in it, layered with ripples, silt and pebbles like a slice of the river turned on end. The water left; its outline stayed.
Field noteRiverwater has set into a tall glassy slab standing on its edge in the cracked bed it once filled.
- Specimen
- No. 1403
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a cracked dry riverbed under a stormy sunset
- Nearest existing relative
- a slab of agate
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Yellow canoe through stoneA solid canoe and a solid boulder occupy the same place. Both are stated to be hard; the picture cannot keep that up.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Moths biting an amber sunbeamMoths eat wool. These eat light, and the beam keeps the bite marks as if it were cloth.
Feathers forged into steelWhite feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.