a man gave me
his abduction diary
Author Archives: Jennifer Patino
Thanataphobic
they tell me I’m still too young,
but I know the darkness doesn’t
discriminate
On the Floor of Your Apartment
Those perfect pearls imprint
an enlightened message
on my fruit-thin flesh
Good Doctoring
I pick scabs in layers
to know exactly what being an
obstacle to your own healing
looks like
Celeste
born a heavenly body
not of her own
The Jam Files #9: Hijacked
As if the body didn’t have enough foreign invaders to fight off.
Infinitesimal : I’ve Been Assigned New Limits
I’m awake
for five hours before I feel
the grinding of clouds
into my bones
I’m a Tenant in My Own Body & the Space Keeps Changing
I fought for doctors to listen to me.
To believe me.
Meta-lomania Myopia, Desolate Dystopia
my home has walls
made of sliced bread
& they’re soft &
distant enough…
Two Poems in “Free Verse Revolution Issue IV”
“The King Needed No Crown” &
“One Circle of Hell Was Hydrotherapeutic”