Field guide No. 767
Volcano’s feathered ash plume
Erupting, softly.
A volcano sends up a dark ash cloud that turns into white feathers as it rises and drifts off across the sky. The landing will be gentle.
Field noteAsh is burnt rock, feathers are grown. This plume starts as one and ends as the other in one column.
- Specimen
- No. 767
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A volcanic coast under grey cloud.
- Nearest existing relative
- An ash plume.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Taut rope, wrinkled airHung from a rope like washing, a patch of air creases, drapes and casts a shadow it has no surface for.
Pear pressed into white marbleA pear sinks into a marble counter without breaking its surface. The stone has gone soft around the fruit.
Silver fish through frosted branchesHoarfrost bristles on a bush that sits wholly underwater, where no frost can form, and fish weave through it.
Copper stitches mend the torn skySky has nothing to tear and nothing to sew into. Stitches in it mend a fabric that isn’t one.