Field guide No. 573
One house, many absent shadows
Plenty of shade, one house.
Seen from above, a grid of dry suburban plots has one tiled house in the middle, and every other empty plot still casts the shadow of a house. The neighbourhood is mostly in the dark about itself.
Field noteShadows need something to cast them. On these empty plots, houses’ shadows lie with no houses.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Blue peg clamps a rainbowLight has no edge to grip. This rainbow has one, and a peg on it, like washing on a line.
Leaping salmon, stretching a sheet of waterA salmon leaps above water, drawing a sheet of spray behind it. The river has grown a tail.
Dandelion seeds connect sky and soilSeedheads trail threads from the clock down to each seedling, like a maypole.
The empty paradeBoots walking unworn is a motor problem, not a contradiction. Footwear has simply gone freelance.