the crayon box

his art work
should have been framed,
the way
he used
the colors, all
54 crayons
in the box,
deftly handling the slender
stick wrapped in paper
with the name
on each side.
the subtle
blues, called robins egg,
or rain,
the velvet violets,
a variety of
greens,
canary yellow.
he outlined each
face,
each figure with the narrow
point of black.
giving blue eyes or brown,
then signed the bottom
before turning
to another page.
he was da vinci
with his coloring books.