Seeing red

The medication turned
her eyes pearly-white, made her
crave salt.
She denied the existence of day,
only wrote at night,
       click-click-clack
on her typewriter while the moon
watched from the sky-light.

40 mg of chemical acrobats
to balance her brain.

She wrote about red things:
strawberries, heartbeats,
lips and the words they sang,
blood in a bath-tub,
roses and exit
              lights.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Amazing use of words.
"40 mg of chemical acrobats
to balance her brain."
You allowed the reader to feel and understand the words and thoughts. Thank you for sharing the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[Sudeep Mishra]

40mg of chemical acrobats, this is what I loved the most as all other would have!!
compact and appealing.

[eglantine]

Thank you sir!

[terry smith]

...rub-a-dub-dub there is blood in the tub....gotta find an exit light,the moon says I have to say good-night....Loved this :)

[eglantine]

Thank you again!

[ChemicalMadness]

40mg of chemical acrobats....loved that!

you always paint so vividly.

CM.

[A. Amos]

interesting piece of work my friend and looking forward to read more of your material...

[Mark]

A very grounded work. It has more concreteness then I've read in your poems. I like that.

I think warning lights might be better as stop lights. warnings are usually yellow.

[eglantine]

good point. Thank you