Field guide No. 729
Square ringed red onion
Cut along the dotted lines.
On a blue chopping board a red onion has been cut in half, and its rings turn out to be nested squares. It will still make you cry.
Field noteOnions grow in rounds. This one grew in nested squares, and it is still an onion.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Stitched bubble in dusty roseA pearlescent bubble is stitched shut with coarse thread. The repair is holding its breath.
Snow in the picnic table's shadowSnowfall keeps to the picnic table’s shadow, a tidy white rectangle on a green spring lawn.
Tiny flame, enormous gustA flame that blows a gale gets energy from nowhere. A physics outrage, a logical shrug.
Impossible cubic pearl in oysterPearls grow round because nacre goes on in layers. This oyster layered one with corners.