Field guide No. 275
The weight of Sunday
The ears have the afternoon off.
A basset hound naps on a kitchen chair in a pink kitchen while its ears pour off the seat and run across the chequered floor like two long rugs. Sunday, exactly as heavy as it feels.
Field noteEars long enough to cross the floor are breeding gone too far. Basset owners won’t be surprised.
Also possible, also breaking physics
A small matter of gravityIrons do not hover or sift. That is a complaint for physics; logic signed off long ago.
The patient needleSteel does not root. Biology has turned down this application several times.
Pearly teeth in a purple figFruit growing dentition is biology going off-script. Dentists would cope; botanists less so.
Desert driftJellyfish are real and so are clouds. One should not be the size or altitude of the other.
