Colors
bright striped leggings and rubber boots
outside but inside
something much darker
something she has seen
heard felt smelled whispered noticed
being exuded
in the form of crayon-created
black purple blue
stick figures in the middle of
blank white paper,
like she colored the
blank white paper;
someone colored her
black purple blue
the man that was colored on her
no longer
blank white paper;
he carried her home
over his shoulder
she dropped
a wadded up ball of paper
a few weeks later
an teenage girl stoops to retrieve
a wadded up ball of paper-
unraveled, she chokes
black purple blue
a child’s drawings
the stick figure in the middle of the paper,
crumpled tattered bleeding wet
holding a gun to a stick girl in
bright striped leggings and rubber boots