Jennifer Patino

Ojibwe Prayer + Update

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

30 word poetry prompt

Poem published in an anthology

Cunning raven,
sing for me

“This Place is a Sorry Excuse for a Hell”