Field guide No. 942
Water from a thirsty shadow
A shadow has asked for water
A clear glass stands on a white terrace while its dark shadow pours like water over the edge. The thirsty one is not the glass.
Field noteA dark shadow pours over the edge like water. It has stopped behaving like shade.
- Specimen
- No. 942
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A white terrace above the sea.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cast shadow.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
A soap-sized desert in the mirrorThe mirror shows a different dish than the one in front of it, and a desert the size of soap. Two faults.
Horse emerging from a chalk outlineHalf chalk and half horse, joined at the ribs, and the chalk half is walking too.
Yellow gloves wring a steel chainWringing squeezes water out of cloth. This chain gives up little chains, as if steel were wet.
Peel backBoulder’s shadow lifts off the wet sand at the far end like a strip of tape.