Field guide No. 209
Noon in reverse
The shade got the sun.
A tiled courtyard seen from straight above, full of potted plants, where the midday light falls in the shape the shadow should have been. The tiles have stopped asking questions.
Field noteLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
- Specimen
- No. 209
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A tiled courtyard at midday, from above.
- Nearest existing relative
- A courtyard, and potted plants.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The rain remembersReflections show what is above them. One puddle reporting noon at midnight is lying, which reflections can’t.
Butterfly shadows over a sleeping tigerCast by butterflies that aren’t in the room: a silhouette of nothing, which is a contradiction with wings.
Ironing a trail of frostAn iron that freezes is a hot thing that is cold. Pick one.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.