Field guide No. 172
Winter under glass
Kept cold on purpose.
A round brass-framed mirror stands among green ferns, and the fern it reflects is covered in white frost.
Field noteA mirror shows what is in front of it. Showing frost that isn’t there makes it not a mirror, while being one.
- Specimen
- No. 172
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Among green ferns, in one reflection only.
- Nearest existing relative
- A round mirror, and a fern.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Noon in reverseLight falling exactly where the shade belongs is shade that is lit. That is a square trying to be round.
Flames within the icebergA fire inside ice that doesn’t melt it is both hot and not hot at the same place.
Sky beneath the cracked earthThe sky is above the ground by definition. Below it, it is not the sky.
Winter drawBehind a slab in a red canyon there should be more canyon. Through the door there is snow instead.