Field guide No. 1443
Frostbound fire in a deserted yard
Burning and frozen at once
Along a concrete yard at night, a line of flames burns orange inside a crust of clear ice, frost spreading out from it. Neither one is winning.
Field noteIce and flame cancel each other out, and here each holds the other in place along the yard’s floor.
- Specimen
- No. 1443
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A concrete yard by a shut roller door, at night.
- Nearest existing relative
- A frozen puddle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Suspended river loop over moorlandWater over water, with nothing between them but the river’s own curve. Rivers don’t make their own bridges.
Impossible bench through boulderBench slats enter the boulder on one side and leave intact on the other.
The short strawLow sun should stretch a giraffe’s neck across the ground; this shadow got the neck of a pony.
Five sparrows, five gravitiesGravity has one down per place. Five sparrows on one twig have five, which makes the branch a disagreement.