Field guide No. 764
Violet paint beetles escape the wall
Wet paint, walking.
A splash of violet paint on a skate bowl runs in drips, and each drip ends in a glossy violet beetle crawling away. The paint is still wet.
Field noteDrips are paint and beetles are beetles. These are both at once, alive at one end and dribbling at the other.
- Specimen
- No. 764
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A concrete skate bowl at night.
- Nearest existing relative
- A ground beetle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Cabbage with curious snail eyestalksA cabbage is what snails eat, not what snails are. This one is both, looking round on stalks for itself.
Three basins through one drainEach basin drains into one smaller than itself, standing inside the bigger one. The water would go up to go down.
Borrowed backboneA slug carries an exposed spine. The loan is secured against next year’s mucus.
The horizon comes looseThe horizon is where the ground appears to end. A thing that only appears cannot peel.