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Crayons by Cat Rambo I learned a long time ago in a hot Kansas summer that crayons lying on a wooden porch in the sun will melt. The multicolored patch on the gray of the boards distressed my grandmother. Some wax seeped through the cracks and, peering through the shadowy grass at the underside, I could see drips of salmon and cornflower and pine green, and fire ants marching back and forth between them. Wax imprisoned two. That was the same summer a tick crept from the ungroomed collie next door up into my hair. My mother put fingernail polish remover on it. My grandmother wanted to burn it off with the tip of a lit cigarette. Everyone writes their own folk remedies. Mine was this: to remove hardened
crayon wax from wooden boards, (1) take an ordinary table knife and (2)
scrape in the cool evening, hearing the cicadas in the cottonwood trees. ______________________________________ posted 07.11.05 |
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