Field guide No. 062
Long exposure
Shutter open, permanently.
An old bellows camera sits in a forest stream, with a waterfall pouring straight out of its lens.
Field noteCameras take in light; this one gives out river. Plumbing could manage it, optics could not.
Also possible, also breaking physics
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.
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.