Field guide No. 1295
Fallen tree, standing shadow
The shadow didn’t get the news.
A dead tree lies toppled on a dry plain while a black silhouette of the same tree stays standing at its root. Nobody told the shadow.
Field noteToppled oak lies in the grass while its black silhouette stays upright at the root.
- Specimen
- No. 1295
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a dry prairie under a pale sky
- Nearest existing relative
- a dead oak
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The dry circleSeawater fills the cliff pool but stops dead at a round, crimped rim, leaving its middle bone dry.
Sky beneath the cracked earthThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.
Impossible gearbox interlockTwo solid gears cannot occupy one space. These pass straight through each other’s teeth.
Freight wagon outweighed by a featherA feather balances a freight wagon on a crane. The scales have taken the day off.