Poem by Patricia Wallace Jones

The Day Her Hair Turned Blue

 

She learned new meanings

for words she knew--

meninges   status   intractable   

residual  damage  delay.

 

The day it turned even bluer

she learned to type

titre   deviation   behavioral

intensive   temporal  psychosis.

 

It silvered years later

on a back road near Hexam,

where she came to write

lay-by   round-a-bout   plaice

in her own flowing cursive.

Patricia Wallace Jones is an artist and retired disability advocate.  She began writing poetry after retiring on the northern California coast.