Field guide No. 898
Rain beneath the still lake
The lake rains underneath
Rain falls through the surface of a still lake and continues among the submerged stones. The water has misplaced its ceiling.
Field noteRain falls through a lake’s surface and continues among the stones below. The water has misplaced its ceiling.
- Specimen
- No. 898
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A still lake with a clear bottom.
- Nearest existing relative
- Falling water from a cloud.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Starlings perched on a sagging sunbeamStarlings perch on a band of sunlight as if it were a wire. The evening has installed a rail.
Blacklight campfire on the salt flatFlames are light by definition; these are black and still throw a glow onto the salt crust.
A glacier opens to summerOne doorway, two seasons side by side, both in the same air. Winter and summer can’t share a threshold.
Moth through the birchA body cannot be on both sides of a solid trunk. This moth’s wings are, with the tree unbroken between.