Field guide No. 320
Sky beneath the cracked earth
Mind the gaps.
A dry plain cracked into plates, with blue sky and white clouds showing through the cracks underneath. Dig far enough and it gets breezy.
Field noteThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.
- Specimen
- No. 320
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dry plain at dusk.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cracked mudflat.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Winter drawBehind a slab in a red canyon there should be more canyon. Through the door there is snow instead.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Winter under glassA mirror shows what is in front of it. Showing frost that isn’t there makes it not a mirror, while being one.
Butterfly shadows over a sleeping tigerCast by butterflies that aren’t in the room: a silhouette of nothing, which is a contradiction with wings.