Field guide No. 005
Going up
Next stop: weather.
A steel elevator stands alone in a meadow, doors open, full of cloud. Nobody has pressed a button.
Field noteLifts exist and so do clouds. Getting one to wait inside the other is weather’s business.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.
The last matchSmoke setting solid is chemistry misbehaving. A cube of anything is still a perfectly sound cube.
Roots above, apples belowTrees could grow upside down if gravity agreed. It doesn’t; logic doesn’t mind.
The chalk migrationPaper birds fold easily; napkins hold a shape. Flying south is an aerodynamic stretch.