Field guide No. 919
Starlings perched on a sagging sunbeam
The sunbeam is running low
Starlings perch along a curved band of warm light above an industrial yard at dusk. The sunset has installed a temporary rail.
Field noteStarlings perch on a band of sunlight as if it were a wire. The evening has installed a rail.
- Specimen
- No. 919
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An industrial yard at dusk.
- Nearest existing relative
- A flock of starlings.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Twin oceans converge at an impossible horizonAn ocean overhead is a sky made of what should be under it. Both of them can’t be down.
Thundercloud beneath the lakeWater above, sky below, and the lake doesn’t fall through. A storm under a lake is a contradiction with lightning.
Octopus in an impossible knotArms loop through each other in a closed knot no free end could have tied.
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.