Field guide No. 117
Emergency exit to spring
In case of winter, open.
A red fire door stands alone in a snowfield. Through it, the meadow is green and full of flowers.
Field noteSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.
- Specimen
- No. 117
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A snowfield with one door in it, signed for spring.
- Nearest existing relative
- A fire door.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Winter under glassA mirror shows what is in front of it. Showing frost that isn’t there makes it not a mirror, while being one.
Butterfly shadows over a sleeping tigerCast by butterflies that aren’t in the room: a silhouette of nothing, which is a contradiction with wings.