Field guide No. 883
Locomotive inside a giant railway loop
The railway takes the long way round
A small locomotive sits inside a complete circular railway loop in a pale quarry. The route has no obvious first stop.
Field noteA locomotive sits on a circular track inside a quarry. It needs speed to stay on the loop.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Split sunflowers at duskSliced sunflower heads hold their halves apart like open mouths, the gaps floating in midair at sunset.
Autumn stillness in a stormWind that stops at a straight line breaks the weather’s rules, not logic’s.
Impossible dew in torn silkDew hangs off a web because the web holds it. These three drops sit in the gaps, held by nothing.
Spotless shake outside the laundromatA white dog shakes dark water outside a laundromat. The spin cycle escaped.