Field guide No. 1531
Zebra with floating stripes
Stripes, detached.
A zebra stands alone on a cracked white salt flat while black stripes peel off its body and stream into the air like ribbons. Camouflage, leaving early.
Field noteZebra markings are colour in the hair, so stripes drifting off alone are patterns without a coat.
- Specimen
- No. 1531
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cracked salt flat, just behind the zebra.
- Nearest existing relative
- A barber’s pole.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Sleeping fox, standing shadowA fox sleeps while its shadow stands upright. One of them is keeping watch.
Closing time for shadowsA shadow is where light isn’t. Swept into a pile, it’s also something that is. Pick one.
Finished room, unfinished reflectionThis mirror shows a room that is finished and not finished at once, and both are the same bathroom.
Volcanic eyelid across the plainGround has no eyes and eyes have no lava. This crater is plainly a closed lid, lashes and all.