Field guide No. 1267
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.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Cobalt windows sliding downwardBlue shutters slide down the facade. The building has misplaced its windows by a floor.
No fixed addressMussels on a pier post send water streaming upward into the sea; they have a home and it drains the wrong way.
Desert driftJellyfish are real and so are clouds. One should not be the size or altitude of the other.
Shredder reverses into one sheetShredding goes one way only, that being the point of it. This one runs backwards.
