Saturday, September 12, 2015

MADE IN AMERICA: AMERICAN CRAYONS



 










Crumbling black brick
with white lettering
Index finger smokestack
Dismantled machines
Lost workers
Instruments of color creation
Kindergarten perceptions
of broccoli stalk trees and beaming suns
an artist's rendering gauzy scenes
of a Provence countryside
cylinders of orange, mauve and maroon
poured, molded, dried
cut, packaged shipped
opened in rooms of A, B, C, 1, 2, 3
abandoned on a June afternoon
a worn palette of nubs
rolling around
in a busted box