Field guide No. 685
Midday night reception
Tuned to the night shift.
A radio dish stands on a white desert at midday, under a clear blue sky, and a long wedge of starry night comes down out of the sky straight into it. The rest of the day carries on regardless.
Field noteA slice of starry night stands in the blue noon sky, and the dish catching it is in full sun.
- Specimen
- No. 685
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A white desert plain at midday.
- Nearest existing relative
- A radio telescope.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Blacklight campfire on the salt flatFlames are light by definition; these are black and still throw a glow onto the salt crust.
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.
Sheep grazing beneath the kelpSheep graze underwater among tall kelp. They have not brought the equipment for breathing.