Field guide No. 116
The porcelain orchard
Pick when blue.
An olive tree in a sunny courtyard grows blue-and-white teacups instead of fruit.
Field noteOlive trees fruit olives. Teacups would be a breakthrough in botany, not in logic.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The colour goes homePigment that runs uphill into its tin offends gravity and drying times. Logic is unbothered.
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.