Field guide No. 766
Volcanic eyelid across the plain
Something down there is resting.
On a black volcanic plain, a low mound has a long closed seam fringed with pale lashes, like a giant eyelid shut. It has not opened yet.
Field noteGround has no eyes and eyes have no lava. This crater is plainly a closed lid, lashes and all.
- Specimen
- No. 766
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A black lava plain under grey sky.
- Nearest existing relative
- A volcanic cone.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
Sweeping the grain awayGrain is the wood, not something on it. Sweeping it into a pile leaves boards that are somehow still boards.
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.