darkness
can shine too
Author Archives: Jennifer Patino
#OctPoWriMo Prep
Instead of this graveyard of drafts I’m accumulating, I can go and tend to them, nourish the garden of my hard work, and revive them into newness.
Time Between Waves
There is time between waves of excruciating pain where I’m relaxed, even peaceful, because the waves have just turned into trickles and it’s more manageable.
An Update from the Sickbed + Poems
The end of summer is making sure I feel it.
2 Poems: Little Brother & Little Brother, Gone
little brother,
keep dancing
little brother,
breathe
On Maturing
my wrath
drains crimson
down the bath
Moon Monologue
Flashes of lightning
illuminate you,
and I turn away
lest I cry.
They Say Some Behaviors Are Learned
I have learned to be glad
for the things I’ll
never understand
Melatonin: A Poem
…blue lights
turn on
one by one…
Fuchsia: A Poem
what pain looks like
but only to those
who allow themselves to feel it
