Color by Number

Coloring outside the lines

By K.B. Silver Published about a year ago • 1 min read

sitting at a faux wood desk

barely big enough to

accommodate my frame

crossing out colors on the

bossy art instruction sheet

replacing them with

my own swatches of fantasy

retrieved each corresponding

waxy pigment stick

childish styluses of wonderment

color-by-color

I filled in the matrix

to my own inscrutable ends

the others lost in a Crayola haze

gasps and giggles of palpable excitement

gazing into my rainbow magic eye puzzle

a whirlpool of color

slowly revealing a hidden image

K.B. Silver

K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.

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