Field guide No. 1417
Black sheep, white reflection
The white sheep of the family
A black sheep stands at a puddle on a grey salt flat, and the puddle shows a white sheep. Its reflection fits in better than it does.
Field noteReflections return what stands over them; this pool hands back the flock’s version of the animal.
- Specimen
- No. 1417
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A puddle on a grey salt flat, under heavy cloud.
- Nearest existing relative
- A shop window.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Impossible red and white stairwellBoth flights are up. One rises from the floor, one from the ceiling, and they meet as one stair.
Stones pulling kelp toward the surfaceEach frond lifts a stone that is also meant to sink. The buoys are heavy, and still buoyant.
Impossible copper coins on green counterCopper discs slot through one another without a cut, two solids sharing the same space.
Wrong exit through the pool floorBelow a pool floor is earth. Sky down there means the ground is above itself.