Field guide No. 187
The wrong end of summer
Freshly frozen.
A ripe red tomato on the vine sprouts a spray of icy water and snowflakes from its stem.
Field noteTomatoes don’t make snow, but nothing forbids them in principle. Botanists remain unconsulted.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The chalk migrationPaper birds fold easily; napkins hold a shape. Flying south is an aerodynamic stretch.
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.
A small rebellionWood with walking roots is biology overreaching. No rule of chess says pawns can’t leave.
Seven horses across the waterfallHorses need ground; falling water isn’t any. Gravity objects, logic doesn’t.