Field guide No. 956
Blue butterfly through the lock
A butterfly finds the keyhole
A blue butterfly’s wing slips through a rusted padlock on a garden gate. The gate has accepted the smallest key on record.
Field noteA butterfly wing passes through a rusted padlock. The gate accepted a very small key.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Sheep with a spiral fleece hollowFleece can be twisted and matted. A spiral this deep implies a sheep with nothing in the middle.
Autumn leaves queue beneath ancient rootsLeaves land where the wind drops them. These have formed orderly queues, which wind never manages.
Conch siphons sand beneath suspended waterWater can hang above sand in this image; the shoreline’s physics has been put aside.
Every seat tilts toward a featherEvery theatre seat leans toward one white feather in the aisle. It drew the only full house.