Field guide No. 620
Apple slice beyond the mirror
The reflection had a knife.
On a blue table a whole red apple sits in front of a small mirror, and in the mirror the apple has been cut, its slice sticking out of the glass into the room. Only one of them is lunch.
Field noteWhole on this side, sliced on the other, and the slice pokes back through. An apple can’t be both cut and uncut.
- Specimen
- No. 620
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A blue table by a sunny window.
- Nearest existing relative
- An apple.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Noon in the coffee puddleSpilt coffee reflects a midday sun and clouds under a diner ceiling at dusk.
Emergency exit to springSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.
Shadow waterfall on dry limestoneA shadow needs something in the light. This one falls down the cliff with nothing there to cast it.
The sideways forest meetingTrees grow away from the ground they stand in. These stand in a wall and grow level, as if down were east.