Field guide No. 1558

A marsh of tall grass bent flat by a gale under storm clouds, except one neat rectangle of reeds standing perfectly upright. Someone has fenced off a patch of calm.

Eye of the storm

One rectangle didn’t get the wind

A marsh of tall grass bent flat by a gale under storm clouds, except one neat rectangle of reeds standing perfectly upright. Someone has fenced off a patch of calm.

Field noteReeds in a gale all bend together, except one rectangle that stands still as if indoors.

Specimen
No. 1558
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A rectangle of still air in a windblown marsh
Nearest existing relative
A wheat field in a gale
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics