Field guide No. 1097
Daylight through the night cone
A cone with a view of tomorrow.
A red traffic cone on a wet night street frames a daytime view of the same road through its open middle. The detour is cheerful.
Field noteOne street shows noon through a cone and midnight around it. The detour runs both directions of time.
- Specimen
- No. 1097
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet street, any hour.
- Nearest existing relative
- A red traffic cone.
- 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.