Field guide No. 751
Thundercloud beneath the lake
The weather’s down there.
Under a still mountain lake, a split view shows a thunderstorm raging beneath the surface, lightning and all, where the lake bed should be. The surface hasn’t noticed.
Field noteWater above, sky below, and the lake doesn’t fall through. A storm under a lake is a contradiction with lightning.
- Specimen
- No. 751
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A mountain lake, still as glass.
- Nearest existing relative
- A thunderstorm.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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.
Frozen campfire in an abandoned freezerA fire is heat or it is nothing. This campfire is frozen through, frost on its flames, and still a campfire.
Waterfall severed above a silent poolWater that falls keeps falling. This stops in a ruled line in mid-air, and the pool goes without.
Reflection lifts a river mud slabMud slab rests on its own reflection, which has turned solid and bears the weight.