Field guide No. 514
Open orchard door, floating hardware
The handle stayed at its post.
A blue door stands open in a frame among apple trees, while its knob, lock and keyhole plates hang in mid-air where the closed door would be. The hardware didn’t get the memo.
Field noteIts handle and lock still hang where the shut door would be, while the door itself stands wide open beside them.
- Specimen
- No. 514
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An apple orchard.
- Nearest existing relative
- A door handle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Frozen campfire in an abandoned freezerA fire is heat or it is nothing. This campfire is frozen through, frost on its flames, and still a campfire.
Noon in reverseLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
Fallen dominoes, standing shadowsToppled tiles casting upright shadows: the shadows belong to dominoes that aren’t there.
A slip in the distanceA horizon is level by definition. This one has a step in it, so it’s level twice.