Field guide No. 169
The rain remembers
Two skies, one puddle.
On a wet city street at night, one puddle holds a bright midday sky with clouds and sun, while the next one over still shows the moon.
Field noteReflections show what is above them. One puddle reporting noon at midnight is lying, which reflections can’t.
- Specimen
- No. 169
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet city street at night, two puddles apart.
- Nearest existing relative
- A puddle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Winter under glassA mirror shows what is in front of it. Showing frost that isn’t there makes it not a mirror, while being one.
Butterfly shadows over a sleeping tigerCast by butterflies that aren’t in the room: a silhouette of nothing, which is a contradiction with wings.
Ironing a trail of frostAn iron that freezes is a hot thing that is cold. Pick one.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.
