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I Often Have Nostalgia For Things That Never Happened

tonight i learned about the dead boy
who filmed my old stomping ground

Posted byJennifer PatinoDecember 15, 2022December 15, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:december, nostalgia, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing community20 Comments on I Often Have Nostalgia For Things That Never Happened

Haibun published over @ A Cornered Gurl

“Trying to Catch Dust in a Windstorm”

Posted byJennifer PatinoNovember 4, 2022November 4, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:a cornered gurl, autumn, haibun, haiku, november, pandemic, poem, poetry, poetry community, poets, published, published poetry, writing, writing community18 Comments on Haibun published over @ A Cornered Gurl

Happy Halloween!

Some of my microfiction included in the “#horrorprompt Anthology Volume 1”

Posted byJennifer PatinoOctober 31, 2022Posted inpoetry, ProseTags:anthology, horror, horrorpormpt, published writing, writing, writing community16 Comments on Happy Halloween!

“Roman Candles” — An Elliott Smith Inspired Online Anthology

“There’s a way back to blue
& to you, but we couldn’t
remind you in time”

Posted byJennifer PatinoOctober 28, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:anthology, elliott smith, fevers of the mind, poetry, poetry community, published poetry, published work13 Comments on “Roman Candles” — An Elliott Smith Inspired Online Anthology

According

some cords desire to be bound
tighter, some anchors prevent
us from floating too far away

Posted byJennifer PatinoOctober 26, 2022October 27, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writing, writing community17 Comments on According

Awaiting Autumn

I’m being as patient as possible

Posted byJennifer PatinoOctober 8, 2022Posted inpersonal, poetryTags:autumn, chronic illness, chronic pain, personal, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing community30 Comments on Awaiting Autumn

Makwa at the Crossroads

There was medicine just lying around,

Posted byJennifer PatinoSeptember 21, 2022September 21, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:bear, ojibwe, ojibwemowin, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, writer, writers, writing, writing community27 Comments on Makwa at the Crossroads

2 Poems: “Anne, I Understand” & “Sylvia’s Medicine”

Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath Challenge

Posted byJennifer PatinoSeptember 12, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:fevers of the mind, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, published poetry, published writing, sylvia plath9 Comments on 2 Poems: “Anne, I Understand” & “Sylvia’s Medicine”

I’m Looking Too Far Back

In the pink plastic pail
at the end
of the driveway,
stones and acorns
soak, sky reflections
swirl.

Posted byJennifer PatinoSeptember 7, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, summer, writer, writers, writing, writing community32 Comments on I’m Looking Too Far Back

Systems

what is broken
are systems

Posted byJennifer PatinoAugust 29, 2022Posted inpoetryTags:archive, old writing, poem, poet, poetry, poetry community, poets, summer, writing, writing community

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