Field guide No. 1451
Impossible copper coins on green counter
Loose change, loosely.
A pile of verdigris pennies on a chipped green counter, several of them passing straight through each other. The till will not balance.
Field noteCopper discs slot through one another without a cut, two solids sharing the same space.
- Specimen
- No. 1451
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A chipped green shop counter at closing time.
- Nearest existing relative
- A jar of pennies.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
A glacier opens to summerOne doorway, two seasons side by side, both in the same air. Winter and summer can’t share a threshold.
Moth through the birchA body cannot be on both sides of a solid trunk. This moth’s wings are, with the tree unbroken between.
Rain beneath the still lakeRain falls through a lake’s surface and continues among the stones below. The water has misplaced its ceiling.
The dry circleSeawater fills the cliff pool but stops dead at a round, crimped rim, leaving its middle bone dry.