Field guide No. 768
Wafer thin pigeons at dawn
Seen from the side, missing.
Pigeons stand on a wet square at dawn, ordinary from the side, but one facing the viewer is as thin as a playing card. They all turn at once.
Field noteA pigeon has a front, a side and a depth. This one has two and gets by as a sheet.
- Specimen
- No. 768
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet cobbled square at dawn.
- Nearest existing relative
- A feral pigeon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Ember in the iceBurning coal at full glow, packed in ice that stays frozen against it. One of them is lying about the temperature.
Daylight through the night coneOne street shows noon through a cone and midnight around it. The detour runs both directions of time.
Brutalist staircase loopStairs that rise all the way round and land where they began are a drawing trick, poured here in concrete.
Frozen flame, warm coreA flame is heat. One made of frost is burning cold, which is the two words cancelling out.