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The End of 2020 + Announcement

It’s the last day of 2020.

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 31, 2020Posted inpersonalTags:2020, 2021, blog, new year, personal, poetry, publishing, the chamber magazine, update

You Must Wash Your Hands Until They Bleed

A poem written under quarantine.
My husband, unfortunately,
has Covid-19.

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 13, 2020December 14, 2020Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:covid 19, pandemic, poem, poet, poetry, poetry communityl, poets, quarantine, writer, writers, writing community40 Comments on You Must Wash Your Hands Until They Bleed

Happy Halloween!

Update + a Spooky Poem

Posted byJennifer PatinoOctober 31, 2020Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:family, halloween, happy halloween, nightmare, personal, poet, poetry, poetrycommunity, poets, spooky, update, writers, writing, writing community

I Gotta Take a Break

on hiatus

Posted byJennifer PatinoOctober 23, 2020October 23, 2020Posted inpersonalTags:octpowrimo, personal, poetry community, writing community2 Comments on I Gotta Take a Break

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.

Posted byJennifer PatinoSeptember 26, 2020Posted inpersonalTags:anxiety, blog, break, chronic illness, chronic pain, pandemic, personal, update

An Update from the Sickbed + Poems

The end of summer is making sure I feel it.

Posted byJennifer PatinoSeptember 21, 2020September 21, 2020Posted inpersonal, poetry, ProseTags:an angel at my table, blog, chronic illness, chronic pain, film, janet frame, little women, personal, poems, poetry, poetry community, poets, writers, writing, writing community4 Comments on An Update from the Sickbed + Poems

2 Poems: Little Brother & Little Brother, Gone

little brother,
keep dancing

little brother,
breathe

Posted byJennifer PatinoSeptember 16, 2020Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:brother, family, personal, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writing, writing community

#Poetryin13 Anthology Vol. 1

I have some micropoems published in a new anthology.

Posted byJennifer PatinoJune 30, 2020Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:anthology, books, micropoetry, poems, poetry, poetry community, poetryin13, published, writing community

New Poem in “Briefly Write” Webzine

New Published Poem

Posted byJennifer PatinoJune 27, 2020Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:poem, poetry, poetry community, published poem, published writing, webzine, writing, writing community

I’m Re-Watching “Jem” As An Adult Part I

There’s no better time than a lockdown to rediscover your love for an old cartoon you watched as a child.

Posted byJennifer PatinoMay 10, 2020May 10, 2020Posted inpersonalTags:80s, cartoons, jem and the holograms, nostalgia, personal, tubi, tv, writers, writing, writing community1 Comment on I’m Re-Watching “Jem” As An Adult Part I

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