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The Jam Files #9: Hijacked

As if the body didn’t have enough foreign invaders to fight off.

Posted byJennifer PatinoJanuary 10, 2022January 10, 2022Posted inpersonal, ProseTags:chronic illness, chronic pain, coronavirus, covid 19, health, january, personal, personal essay, Prose, spoonies, the jam files, writer, writers, writing, writing community34 Comments on The Jam Files #9: Hijacked

Infinitesimal : I’ve Been Assigned New Limits

I’m awake
for five hours before I feel
the grinding of clouds
into my bones

Posted byJennifer PatinoJanuary 7, 2022January 7, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:january, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing, writing community17 Comments on Infinitesimal : I’ve Been Assigned New Limits

I’m a Tenant in My Own Body & the Space Keeps Changing

I fought for doctors to listen to me.
To believe me.

Posted byJennifer PatinoJanuary 2, 2022January 2, 2022Posted inpersonal, ProseTags:chronic illness, chronic pain, essay, january, new year, personal, personal essay, Prose, writer, writers, writing41 Comments on I’m a Tenant in My Own Body & the Space Keeps Changing

Meta-lomania Myopia, Desolate Dystopia

my home has walls
made of sliced bread
& they’re soft &
distant enough…

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 27, 2021Posted inpoetryTags:december, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing, writing community25 Comments on Meta-lomania Myopia, Desolate Dystopia

Two Poems in “Free Verse Revolution Issue IV”

“The King Needed No Crown” &
“One Circle of Hell Was Hydrotherapeutic”

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 22, 2021January 21, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:december, free verse revolution, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, published, writer, writers, writing, writing community30 Comments on Two Poems in “Free Verse Revolution Issue IV”

We Already Broke Through That Ice

You would never feed a fire. 
You believe it’s better
to watch a slow burn. 

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 12, 2021Posted inpoetryTags:december, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing, writing community22 Comments on We Already Broke Through That Ice

Shipwrecked

we become
our shipwrecked selves

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 8, 2021Posted inpoetryTags:archive, december, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing, writing community23 Comments on Shipwrecked

“Storytelling Season” published @ Whispers and Echoes

100-word story

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 3, 2021Posted inFlash FictionTags:december, fiction, Flash Fiction, ghost, ghost story, horror, published writing, short story, story, whispers and echoes, winter, writing, writing community23 Comments on “Storytelling Season” published @ Whispers and Echoes

Pauline

no wild stallion could compare
to that grey-eyed girl…

Posted byJennifer PatinoNovember 29, 2021November 29, 2021Posted inpoetryTags:archive, november, poem, poet, poetry, poetrycommunity, poets, writer, writers, writing, writingcommunity13 Comments on Pauline

Seventh Generation Wake-Up Call

this distortion
was learned,
ingrained

Posted byJennifer PatinoNovember 24, 2021Posted inpoetryTags:november, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing, writing community17 Comments on Seventh Generation Wake-Up Call

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