Field guide No. 335
Basalt balanced on a soap bubble
Load-bearing bubble.
In a quarry, a huge block of dark basalt rests on top of a single flattened soap bubble, which holds. The other blocks are on the ground like amateurs.
Field noteBubbles burst under a fingertip, let alone a ton of rock. Unlikely, though not self-contradicting.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The umbrella orchardTrees bear leaves to keep off weather. Umbrellas are the same idea, grown wrong.
The unpicked noteSeeds get into pianos and some will sprout given light. Nobody has watered a Steinway yet.
Tiny flame, enormous gustA flame that blows a gale gets energy from nowhere. A physics outrage, a logical shrug.
The stag beneath a lightning treeLightning picks the quickest path down. Following a stag’s antlers is a stylistic choice.