Field guide No. 1437
Empty lunch bags cast chicken shadows
The bags cast hens
Crumpled brown paper lunch bags stand on a canteen table, and each one casts the shadow of a chicken. Someone guessed the filling.
Field notePaper bags throw boxy shadows; under the strip light these six throw hens, combs and all.
- Specimen
- No. 1437
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A school canteen table under strip lights.
- Nearest existing relative
- Hand shadow puppets.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Snow with a molten coreLava melts snow on contact. Here they share a ball and each stays exactly what it is.
The sideways forest meetingTrees grow away from the ground they stand in. These stand in a wall and grow level, as if down were east.
Lightning frozen in amberAmber holds a lightning bolt mid-fork, still lit after the resin set.