Field guide No. 309
Ironing a trail of frost
Pressed, then frozen.
A chrome iron on a tartan shirt leaves a wake of frost crystals instead of steam. Crisp is one word for it.
Field noteAn iron that freezes is a hot thing that is cold. Pick one.
- Specimen
- No. 309
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A laundry room with the heating off.
- Nearest existing relative
- A steam iron.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The rain remembersReflections show what is above them. One puddle reporting noon at midnight is lying, which reflections can’t.
Noon in reverseLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
Flames within the icebergA fire inside ice that doesn’t melt it is both hot and not hot at the same place.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.