Field guide No. 256
Wheelbarrow's unexpected sailboat reflection
Aspiring to open water.
A rusty red wheelbarrow stands in a courtyard puddle, and its reflection is a small sailing boat under full canvas. It has been thinking about this for a while.
Field noteA reflection that shows something else is not, by definition, its reflection. And yet it is.
- Specimen
- No. 256
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A courtyard puddle after rain.
- Nearest existing relative
- A wheelbarrow, and a sailing dinghy.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
The unfinished visitorFur at the head, marble at the tail, sitting up. Carved and alive at once, the rabbit is both.
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.
The missing beamA beam of light is light. Solid enough to lift a chunk out and leave it on a seat, it’s also not.
An honest reflectionA mirror showing somewhere else is a mirror and a window at once. Mud on the sink takes the window’s side.