Field guide No. 1244
Two deer, one impossible trail
Two sets, one set of tracks.
Two deer walk away across a muddy clearing, while a single trail of many small prints leads back from them toward the viewer. The trail has made its own decision.
Field noteTwo deer walk away; one trail of small prints walks toward us. The prints disagree with the deer, not each other.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Dunes defying gravityLoose sand slumps to its angle of repose. These walls ignore the angle entirely.
Sardine whale in an empty warehouseSardines shoaling in the air of a warehouse, in a whale’s outline. Plenty of room, no water at all.
Wake that won't closeA tugboat leaves a raised ridge of water behind it. The wake has not settled.
Unfinished businessPebbles on the black beach each hover a lid’s width above their lower halves, split and never finished.