Field guide No. 789
Dry riverbed climbs the canyon wall
The water took the stairs.
A dry river channel leaves the canyon floor and climbs straight up a sheer red rock wall. The river has reached the steep part.
Field noteA channel climbs stone against gravity. Its geography is strange, not self-contradictory.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Mountain turns storm cloud inside outA storm cloud curls open above an alpine peak. The weather has turned itself inside out.
Raised footprints in the sandFootprints rise from the sand as casts. The tide is meant to subtract, not sculpt.
Stamp of reliefStamps leave impressions. Leaving a working oasis is a result ink has never managed.
Aurora beneath the kelp forestAuroras belong to the upper sky. These curtains are hanging between the kelp, a long way below the waterline.