Field guide No. 218
Cutlery at low tide
Four prongs, four streams.
A silver fork rests on dark wet stone, each of its tines pouring a thin ribbon of seawater down the frame. It is either draining the ocean or serving it.
Field noteForks do drip. Four steady streams with no source is where hydraulics walks out.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Desert driftJellyfish are real and so are clouds. One should not be the size or altitude of the other.
A small matter of gravityIrons do not hover or sift. That is a complaint for physics; logic signed off long ago.
The patient needleSteel does not root. Biology has turned down this application several times.
Wandering crosswalk stripesPaint leaving the road is an adhesion failure with initiative. Nothing in it contradicts itself.
