Jennifer Patino

Haibun published over @ A Cornered Gurl

“Trying to Catch Dust in a Windstorm”

Some of my microfiction included in the “#horrorprompt Anthology Volume 1”

“There’s a way back to blue
& to you, but we couldn’t
remind you in time”

some cords desire to be bound
tighter, some anchors prevent
us from floating too far away

These days when breath is hard, when new pains & new ailments nearly overtake me, I’m finding it easier to pray through it.

I’m being as patient as possible

There was medicine just lying around,

Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath Challenge

In the pink plastic pail
at the end
of the driveway,
stones and acorns
soak, sky reflections
swirl.

what is broken
are systems