Field guide No. 712
Scuttling croissant on tiny orange legs
Fresh, and getting away.
A golden croissant scuttles across a dark, flour-dusted floor on ten jointed orange legs, leaving crumbs in its wake. Breakfast has made other plans.
Field notePastry with a crab’s legs, which is a dish nobody ordered. It has no trouble walking off.
Also possible, also breaking category
Snake-tipped fiddleheads in springFiddleheads coil like snakes, and here the likeness went too far. Fern at the bottom, viper at the tip.
Leaf closureA glowing leaf fills the mouth of a forest tunnel. The road has been absorbed into the plant.
Blue flame in a hollow lemonLemon rind hollowed into a burner, blue gas flame at the bottom of one half.
The sleeping matchSheep sleep and matches are wooden. Combining the two takes a carpenter, not a paradox.