Field guide No. 1267

Maple leaves blow across a cracked white salt flat, and each throws the shadow of a whole leafy tree. The nearest tree is several mountains away.

Autumn leaves cast summer shadows

Each leaf remembers its tree.

Maple leaves blow across a cracked white salt flat, and each throws the shadow of a whole leafy tree. The nearest tree is several mountains away.

Field noteMaple leaves blowing over salt each cast the shade of a full-grown tree.

Specimen
No. 1267
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
a cracked white salt flat in autumn
Nearest existing relative
a shade tree
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics