Field guide No. 173
The chair that wasn't
Saved a seat for the light.
In a dusty, abandoned room, a chair made of drifting dust and sunlight stands in the beam from a tall window.
Field noteDust does hang in sunbeams. Sitting it into furniture is physics overstepping, gently.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Tiny flame, enormous gustA flame that blows a gale gets energy from nowhere. A physics outrage, a logical shrug.
Shell serviceConches have long been held to the ear. Wiring one up is easy; floating it is the hard part.
All the hours at onceTrees can bloom and turn unevenly; snow can come early. All of it on one tree is merely bad timing.
The colour goes homePigment that runs uphill into its tin offends gravity and drying times. Logic is unbothered.