Field guide No. 811
Rain inside the yellow raincoat
The weather is coming from within.
A yellow raincoat hangs in a concrete shelter, streaming water from its sleeves onto the pavement. The forecast is local.
Field noteA coat can collect rain and let it drain from its sleeves. The shelter is working as intended.
Also possible, also breaking physics
White goat’s private eclipseTwo black shadow legs run from the goat’s head, apart from its shadow. Shadows follow light, not instruction.
A featherweight decisionAnvils do not float. Tying one down is sensible; the floating is physics’ oversight.
Summer dust devils on frozen lakeDust devils need hot ground to rise from. These whirl sand across cracked lake ice.
Eight arms agoAn octopus drifts through dark water. It has not reached the part where it needs a hand.