Field guide No. 1591
Night shift
The puddles didn’t get the memo
Tide pools on a sunlit mudflat, each one holding a starry night sky and a band of galaxy. Noon above, midnight below, and nobody in charge of either.
Field noteTide pools reflect the sky over them, and the sky over these is plain noon.
- Specimen
- No. 1591
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Noon mudflats where the puddles keep night hours
- Nearest existing relative
- A rock pool at low tide
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Cubical soap bubbles from a rusted radiatorA soap film pulls itself into a sphere. A free-floating cube of bubble would have to be pulling and not pulling at once.
Starlings perched on a sagging sunbeamStarlings perch on a band of sunlight as if it were a wire. The evening has installed a rail.
Blacklight campfire on the salt flatFlames are light by definition; these are black and still throw a glow onto the salt crust.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.