Field guide No. 1185
Seven shadows, one starfish
One of them is working.
An orange starfish lies on wet dark sand at sunset, throwing seven long shadows from a single arm each. The sun was queried and gave no figure.
Field noteSeven shadows run from seven arms under one sun. The sunset cannot be several places at once.
- Specimen
- No. 1185
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Wet sand at sundown.
- Nearest existing relative
- An orange starfish on sand.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
A dog dreaming of JulyOne pane shows a winter yard and a summer one at once. A reflection should at least agree on the month.
Impossible red and white stairwellBoth flights are up. One rises from the floor, one from the ceiling, and they meet as one stair.
Bottomless noonPuddle in daylit leaf litter holds a full night sky, galaxy and all.
Impossible copper coins on green counterCopper discs slot through one another without a cut, two solids sharing the same space.