Field guide No. 1269
Bag on an invisible seat
Saved a seat for nobody.
A tote bag of bread and greens rests at seat height in the gap between two benches in a rainy bus shelter. There is no seat there to hold it.
Field noteTote bag of bread and greens sits at bench height on plain air between benches.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Smoldering stem, bright yellow dandelionA dandelion’s stem glows and smolders beneath its yellow flower. The plant has chosen a dramatic way to wilt.
Road splitting into darknessThe highway opens into a muddy pit, centre line and all. Repairs are scheduled, indefinitely.
The library of rainJars hold water. Keeping it falling inside them is weather’s refusal, not logic’s.
Northern lights in reindeer breathBreath on a cold morning makes a little fog. A reindeer makes a whole aurora with each one.