Field guide No. 1275
Bottomless noon
Midday on top, midnight below.
A puddle in daylit woodland leaf litter shows a deep night sky full of stars instead of the trees above it. Step in at your own risk.
Field notePuddle in daylit leaf litter holds a full night sky, galaxy and all.
- Specimen
- No. 1275
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a muddy woodland hollow at midday
- Nearest existing relative
- a puddle
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Twin oceans converge at an impossible horizonAn ocean overhead is a sky made of what should be under it. Both of them can’t be down.
Thundercloud beneath the lakeWater above, sky below, and the lake doesn’t fall through. A storm under a lake is a contradiction with lightning.
Octopus in an impossible knotArms loop through each other in a closed knot no free end could have tied.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.