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Event Horizon ‣ My Achilles, you'll always be.
Is this what you need to see The empty soul I’ve come to be A heart collapsed to singularity Just a black hole, ever widening Long...

Jenny Penland
2 min read


XV ‣ Violent Happenstance.
I wanted you to be able to look back and reflect upon our intertwining, because you happen to me just as much as I happen to you.

Jenny Penland
6 min read


Late Night Dopamine ‣ This is your brain on love.
Perhaps a mind's only fine when it pretends. Must be why it always begins again.

Jenny Penland
1 min read


Envisage ‣ A broken glance that whispers - never, ever, ever.
Imagine saying no until it excites you; 'til it bores you. Imagine saying no until you can't imagine wasting you breath on the syllable.

Jenny Penland
1 min read


Heart Shaped Rain Clouds ‣ how far we go to forget.
I’ve never much identified with sad. I’ve been hurt and torn and scared. Flippant, anxious, wary. I’ve known the sting of betrayal’s...

Jenny Penland
2 min read


Warning Label ‣ The itch you can't scratch out.
Remind yourself at the end, before I crawl my way in, under your skin.

Jenny Penland
1 min read


VIII ‣ The girl who lived.
This time, eight years ago, I laid beside you, contemplating life. Specifically, my life. And what was left of it. I was so young. Too...

Jenny Penland
5 min read


VII ‣ Never Grow Up.
I've read that seven is an age of exploration, self-critique and combative complaining. I'm here to report that in the case of one...

Jenny Penland
3 min read


Growing Pains ‣ She's my litmus for all others.
I close my eyes and try to memorize the patterned sound of squeak-creak-squeak-creak, as our chair rocks back and forth atop the uneven wood

Jenny Penland
2 min read


A Flame By Any Other Name ‣ The day she learned the difference.
You know when the train’s comin' - How fast it’s goin’ -
And that you’re standin’ - Where it’s headed.

Jenny Penland
2 min read


Almost ≠Enough ‣ Paper Cuts.
There’s this part of me that hungers for the bloodlet. It’s like breaking a bone to set a sprain or lighting a controlled burn to put out...

Jenny Penland
1 min read


X ‣ Fail big.
Some nine months and ten years ago: forty-six chromosomes, two blue lines, and the unwavering perseverance of a girl too young to know...

Jenny Penland
7 min read
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