Field guide No. 393
Summer above, winter below
The reflection is out of season.
Green summer mountains and pine forest stand above a still lake, but their reflection in the water is deep in snow. One of them is lying about the date.
Field noteA reflection shows what is there. Snow in the water and none on the hills is the lake disagreeing.
- Specimen
- No. 393
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A mountain lake, still.
- Nearest existing relative
- A mirror lake.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Knotted river through autumn marshWater in a knot has to cross over itself, flowing above its own surface without a bridge.
Emergency exit to springSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.
Noon in reverseLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
Sky beneath the cracked earthThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.