Field guide No. 305
Flames within the iceberg
Hot core, cold shoulder.
An iceberg at dusk, glowing with fires burning deep inside the ice. It is not melting; it has made its peace with this.
Field noteA fire inside ice that doesn’t melt it is both hot and not hot at the same place.
- Specimen
- No. 305
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- The polar sea at dusk.
- Nearest existing relative
- An iceberg.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Noon in reverseLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
Ironing a trail of frostAn iron that freezes is a hot thing that is cold. Pick one.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.
Emergency exit to springSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.