Field guide No. 040
Zest express
Stopping at all stations.
A lemon pulls into a tiled underground station as a train, windows lit and doors ready. Expect a sharp departure.
Field noteTrains take whatever body you weld onto them. Citrus is a livery, not a paradox.
Also possible, also breaking category
Frost on the film reelFilm unwinds in long, glossy ribbons, and rivers freeze into the same. The likeness is all it needs.
The starry egg in the cartonTaken as a painted egg, it passes. Taken as a carton holding the sky, it would be a different file.
Molting umbrella on a wet shop floorUmbrellas are made, birds moult. A category slip with a handle.
Room to expandBellows-shaped buildings are a structural engineer’s problem, not a philosopher’s.