Field guide No. 359
Fallen dominoes, standing shadows
The shadows didn’t get the memo.
A row of dominoes has toppled across a red tabletop, but their shadows are still standing upright behind them. The shadows think it’s still before.
Field noteToppled tiles casting upright shadows: the shadows belong to dominoes that aren’t there.
- Specimen
- No. 359
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A red tabletop, low light.
- Nearest existing relative
- A row of dominoes.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Summer above, winter belowA reflection shows what is there. Snow in the water and none on the hills is the lake disagreeing.
Emergency exit to springSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.
Noon in reverseLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
Sky beneath the cracked earthThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.