Field guide No. 364
Frozen flame, warm core
A candle that went the other way.
A red candle on a steel kitchen counter burns with a flame made of frosted ice, and the drips of wax down its side have turned to icicles. There is still a small warm glow at the wick.
Field noteA flame is heat. One made of frost is burning cold, which is the two words cancelling out.
- Specimen
- No. 364
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A steel kitchen counter.
- Nearest existing relative
- A candle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The other costumeA mirror returns what stands in front of it. A bare skeleton for a living okapi returns something else.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Butterfly shadows over a sleeping tigerCast by butterflies that aren’t in the room: a silhouette of nothing, which is a contradiction with wings.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.