Field guide No. 1237
The zipper that bites
The teeth were in the zipper.
A blue work jacket hangs on a wooden chair with its zipper half closed, and a row of frayed round bites runs down the fabric beside it. The jacket is no longer fully under warranty.
Field noteThe jacket is frayed by round bites beside a zipper. A zip with teeth is a pun, and the pun holds together.
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.
Late checkoutAn open suitcase holds seawater on a rocky beach. The room has been returned to the tide.
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.
