Field guide No. 1579
Leaf no trace
The leaves left. The holes stayed.
A puddle mirrors grey cloud and bare branches. Across it float leaf-shaped holes that show bare asphalt beneath.
Field noteLeaf outlines punched out of a reflection, showing tarmac where the leaves themselves should be.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Long exposureCameras take in light; this one gives out river. Plumbing could manage it, optics could not.
Light cut by lightTwo crossing beams pass through each other. Here one cuts the other, and the off-cut falls and bounces.
A small disagreement at duskThe walls curl toward each other without meeting. The argument has been postponed.
The suspended creekTwo creeks, one floating over the other on a band of air. Nothing supports it, which is a complaint only.