Crayola Can't Make These Colors.

Crayola Can't Make These Colors

Elaine Madsen

13 Hand Publications

914 Westwood Blvd., #518, Los Angeles, CA 90024

9780976726067, $14.95, www.13handsonline.com

There are some colors that simply aren't visual. "Crayola Can't Make These Colors: ...From the Palette of a Life in Verse" is a collection of poetry from Elaine Madsen, a multi-talented woman with a strong love for poetry. Her verse is simple and moving, and does well to fit with its title of painting vivid images unique to the English language. "Crayola Can't Make These Colors" is a strong choice all around for poetry fans. "Dandelion Dusted": I climbed to the top of a dandelion,/ and found you hiding there./We lolled all over the golden fluff/and came down/to find people stare!/I don't know why they act that way,/but on the other hand, I've never seen/any other fuzzy, yellow ones like/ me and thee.