Field guide No. 446
Five sparrows, five gravities
Each one is down a different way.
Five sparrows sit on a bare branch, one upright, one sideways, one hanging underneath, each with feathers drifting off in its own direction. They are all sitting down.
Field noteGravity has one down per place. Five sparrows on one twig have five, which makes the branch a disagreement.
- Specimen
- No. 446
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A bramble thicket in winter.
- Nearest existing relative
- A house sparrow.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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.
Sky beneath the cracked earthThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.
The other costumeA mirror returns what stands in front of it. A bare skeleton for a living okapi returns something else.
Snow with a molten coreLava melts snow on contact. Here they share a ball and each stays exactly what it is.