Field guide No. 1418
Blacklight campfire on the salt flat
It gives off the dark
On a blue salt flat at dusk, a pile of logs burns with flames of pure black. The salt around it still glows as if lit.
Field noteFlames are light by definition; these are black and still throw a glow onto the salt crust.
- Specimen
- No. 1418
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A salt crust at dusk, miles from any wood.
- Nearest existing relative
- A beach bonfire.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Thundercloud beneath the lakeWater above, sky below, and the lake doesn’t fall through. A storm under a lake is a contradiction with lightning.
Noon in the coffee puddleSpilt coffee reflects a midday sun and clouds under a diner ceiling at dusk.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Snow with a molten coreLava melts snow on contact. Here they share a ball and each stays exactly what it is.