Betty
Always...

Breaking skin
And revealing...

Best to peel back
And relax...

Bent like
A smile...

galloping around
on a one armed roulette wheel...

meadow flower popped
into a vase made me smile...

These scraping nails
Inside my chalkboard mind will...

Can you hear that whining sound up there;
A constant sound I've taught myself to bear...

Ants crawl over fretting
newts that writhe and twist like...

When blackbird sings a song for him
from snowy perch all crisp and trim...

through my grazing mind
unicorns suddenly jolt...

addiction became
prison where cancer would free...