Field guide No. 1152
Octopus scattered across the seabed
Arms, in several places.
An octopus sits on pale seabed sand while five of its arms disappear into separate burrow holes around it. It is at all of the meetings.
Field noteFive arms vanish into five separate burrows, so the octopus is in several meetings at once.
Also possible, also breaking category
Sparks across exposed tree rootsSnapped roots arc with violet sparks across each break, like severed cables still carrying current.
The zebra’s unfinished stripesStripes are pigment, not ribbon, so the spool is a category slip. The half-zebra is otherwise sound.
Frost blossoms into springFrost ferns on glass but never flowers. Here it has grown little ice daisies beside the real ones.
Woolly sock standoffPrickly socks hang above a small yard. The laundry reached a negotiated pause.