Field guide No. 418
Wrong exit through the pool floor
Deep end goes all the way.
An empty, cracked swimming pool has fish-shaped holes broken through its tiled floor, and through them is open blue sky with clouds and gulls. Diving is strongly discouraged.
Field noteBelow a pool floor is earth. Sky down there means the ground is above itself.
- Specimen
- No. 418
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An empty, cracked swimming pool.
- Nearest existing relative
- An empty pool.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The shadow arrives firstA shadow is the shape of its object by definition. This one has other plans, and so cannot be one.
Butterfly shadows over a sleeping tigerCast by butterflies that aren’t in the room: a silhouette of nothing, which is a contradiction with wings.
The other argumentA reflection that does something else is not a reflection of the people in front of it.
Knotted river through autumn marshWater in a knot has to cross over itself, flowing above its own surface without a bridge.