Jungle

Field guide No. 648

Deep in a blue crevasse of glacier ice, a lump of glowing ember is stuck between the walls, red and black, and the ice around it hasn’t melted at all. It’s a long way to anywhere warm.

Ember in the ice

Wedged in, still glowing.

Deep in a blue crevasse of glacier ice, a lump of glowing ember is stuck between the walls, red and black, and the ice around it hasn’t melted at all. It’s a long way to anywhere warm.

Field noteBurning coal at full glow, packed in ice that stays frozen against it. One of them is lying about the temperature.

Specimen
No. 648
Kind
Impossible (the round square kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A glacier crevasse.
Nearest existing relative
A lump of coal.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also impossible, also breaking physics