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Jenna Malin
Mar 1, 20221 min read
RISING TIDES
Photo by Joseph Barrientos on Unsplash. they say, “the tide raises all ships,” but here I am, s i n k i n g into the abyss. on my toes in...
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Jenna Malin
Feb 21, 20221 min read
A WOMAN TO BEHOLD
Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash an old man stopped me in the parking lot one day. we exchanged smiles, pleasantries, and, inevitably,...
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Jenna Malin
Feb 14, 20221 min read
NORTHERN STAR
Photo by Aleks Dahlberg on Unsplash. you drag me deeper into you with every sigh. I long to be the breath you catch in your throat, the...
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Jenna Malin
Jan 26, 20221 min read
STRAY BUTTERFLIES
Photo by Jian Xhin on Unsplash I followed your scent; a headfirst descent into loneliness and regret. I’m no swimmer but I can dive...
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Jenna Malin
Jan 15, 20221 min read
READING LIPS
Photo by Eduardo Cano Photo Co. on Unsplash if only you could read my lips, you would know just how much they miss you. they were softer...
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Jenna Malin
Jan 1, 20221 min read
NUMB
Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash sometimes i sit and stare at the wall, feeling so much, i feel nothing at all. i’ve become so numb i...
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Jenna Malin
Nov 17, 20211 min read
ICE QUEEN
I am the ice queen. I am cold comfort on a hot morning after a long night of sweating tossing and turning. I am the ice queen, the one...
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Jenna Malin
Oct 30, 20211 min read
HEART INSURANCE II
Is it really worth the damage searching for yourself deep within your wreckage? Digging through the broken the bleeding the bruised parts...
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Jenna Malin
Oct 3, 20211 min read
BEDSIDE DRAWER
I keep your heart locked in my bedside drawer. Not a locker, not a safe, because I swore to keep it close even after you went away. Close...
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Jenna Malin
Sep 24, 20211 min read
SEVEN YEARS
they say your body replaces itself every seven years. your cells replicate, replace, remold. but I still feel you deep in my bones every...
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Jenna Malin
Sep 6, 20211 min read
BLOOD SPORT
Photo by Stephany Lorena on Unsplash. Edited by Jenna Malin on Wix. Keeping your heart is a blood sport I know I’ll never win. It slips...
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Jenna Malin
Jul 29, 20211 min read
SOUL SEARCHING
Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash I love Halloween. Yes, I am that basic white girl. But I’m not pumpkin spice and everything nice, I’m...
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Jenna Malin
Jul 9, 20211 min read
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash. Edited by Jenna Malin. You are the first magical drop of sunlight after years of endless rain. You...
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Jenna Malin
Jun 19, 20211 min read
SPROUT
what have I done to deserve the way you make me hurt? the way your words burrowed into my skin; the very dirt I’m buried in. what have I...
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Jenna Malin
May 27, 20211 min read
DILUTED LOVE
I miss the feeling of you breaking my heart and calling it “art”. The way its fragments splintered tore me apart and the way you marveled...
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Jenna Malin
May 1, 20211 min read
THE STORM BEARER
It’s a foggy morning inside my head. Dew settles at the base of my skull a damp film across my dull thoughts, if I dare think any to...
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Jenna Malin
Mar 17, 20212 min read
The Bulletproof Girl
I’ve always been an easy target. Naturally blonde, forever too fond, and too easily forgotten. My wings are easily clipped bones often...
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Jenna Malin
Mar 8, 20211 min read
The River Femme
Happy International Women's Day 2021! if you can’t handle unbridled courage, this raging current of the river Femme, if you can’t handle...
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Jenna Malin
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Running Red Lights
If I had a dollar for every time someone has told me, "You have to learn to let things go," maybe I could afford the kind of intensive...
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