Field guide No. 772
Woven brick swallows a shopping cart
The wall is having the trolley.
In a wet alley at night, a brick wall has turned into woven strips of brick and is folding itself round a shopping trolley. The trolley is halfway in.
Field noteBrick is fired clay, set hard. This wall weaves like wicker and closes round a trolley.
- Specimen
- No. 772
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet back alley at night.
- Nearest existing relative
- A brick wall.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Vertical river imprintRiverwater has set into a tall glassy slab standing on its edge in the cracked bed it once filled.
Pillow-soft impact in rigid crystalRigid crystal shatters or holds. This block is called rigid and takes a sledgehammer like a pillow.
The egg that cracked steelEgg against steel has one known result. Here the shell is unmarked and the plate is in pieces.
Projector light becomes velvet curtainA projector beam gathers into a heavy purple curtain. Light has acquired a hem.