Field guide No. 329
A glacier opens to summer
Mind the step into July.
A wall of glacier ice has a doorway cut into it, and through the doorway is a sunny birch wood full of red poppies. The snow on this side has not been told.
Field noteOne doorway, two seasons side by side, both in the same air. Winter and summer can’t share a threshold.
- Specimen
- No. 329
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A glacier face, under snow.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cave in the ice.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Ironing a trail of frostAn iron that freezes is a hot thing that is cold. Pick one.
Frozen flame, warm coreA flame is heat. One made of frost is burning cold, which is the two words cancelling out.
Wrong exit through the pool floorBelow a pool floor is earth. Sky down there means the ground is above itself.
The rain remembersReflections show what is above them. One puddle reporting noon at midnight is lying, which reflections can’t.