Field guide No. 575
Parking meter swallows the road
Pay and reel.
On an empty city street, a rusted orange parking meter is sucking the road into its coin slot, the asphalt peeling up in a long strip with the yellow lines still on it. The time has very much expired.
Field noteParking meters take coins. This one is feeding the road itself into its slot.
Also possible, also breaking category
Sour lemon, shuddering linenTablecloths do not taste. This one has puckered toward a lemon slice from every edge.
Blue flame in red cabbageA small blue flame burns between two cabbage halves. Probably the freshest pilot light there is.
Tennis ball through a living fenceVines sprout from a worn tennis ball caught in the chain-link and climb the wire as if it were a seed.
Clamshell cornflakes at breakfastClams in milk instead of flakes: wrong breakfast, perfectly possible clams.