Field guide No. 462
Municipal shade in a sunlit plaza
Shade, provided by the council.
In a sunny plaza of pale curving buildings, street lamps shine tall black cones of starry night down onto the paving, one over a bench. Each lamp hands out a bit of dark.
Field noteStreet lamps are there to get rid of the night. These dispense it in cones, for anyone who wants a sit.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The umbrella orchardTrees bear leaves to keep off weather. Umbrellas are the same idea, grown wrong.
Apple peel, flesh walking awayFruit with legs is biology taking liberties. A peel standing empty is mere good peeling.
Rising water on black basaltRain runs downhill and into the sky never. Here it leaves for the clouds.
Whale-shaped void in sardine swarmShoals close over a gap in a second. This one holds a whale’s outline open with nothing inside.
