Field guide No. 1148
Not quite level
The court’s own shadow disagrees.
Two basketball hoops on weathered red tarmac stand at unrelated angles, one tilted, one upright, with a long shadow stretched across the faded lines. The game has been postponed for geometry.
Field noteTwo hoops stand at unrelated angles with a shadow that disagrees with both; the game has not started.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Quietly unzippedDaytime parts like a seam and shows the night behind. Sky is, strictly, only one layer thick.
Ray of eveningRays glide, but through water. Air holds this one up out of courtesy, not physics.
Whale-shaped void in sardine swarmShoals close over a gap in a second. This one holds a whale’s outline open with nothing inside.
Fixed brass door, spinning storeThe building appears to spin around its fixed brass door. The entrance has stayed on shift.
