Field guide No. 165
The shadow arrives first
It knows a shortcut.
A blue glass lemon floats in front of a yellow wall, while its shadow wanders off in a long, wavy line.
Field noteA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
- Specimen
- No. 165
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A yellow wall, mid-afternoon.
- Nearest existing relative
- A lemon, and its shadow.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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.
Emergency exit to springSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.