Field guide No. 1597
Open house
The shadows took the stairs.
A chain-link fence runs beside an empty lot under a clear sky. Its posts cast shadows that step down the flat pavement like a staircase.
Field noteFence-post shadows folding into steps on ground with nothing to fold over.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Aurora spilling from a freight containerShipping containers carry goods, never weather. One has come open and the northern lights are getting out.
The impossible loop escalatorAn escalator curves into a closed loop inside a quiet mall. The next floor is not available.
The last light sheds white dustA tube light pours powder over buried chairs. Light does not shed dust, but a falling drift has no contradiction.
Going upLifts exist and so do clouds. Getting one to wait inside the other is weather’s business.