Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues

The Workhouse

In the old D.C. prison
turned artist haven community center
I met a photographer 

her office was an old prisoner’s chamber
filled with her colored photographs of the prison grounds
the walls, all cream white, 

covering the messages scratched into the old paint
she gave me a sticker of one such message
she captured with her camera that spoke:

 “This Cell Is Like a Window take a Look AT YOURSELF”

Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues has been published in Breadcrumb Scabs Poetry Magazine as both a poet and photographer. Currently, she is editing her memoir about surviving a rare childhood blood disorder. Jennifer is a certified yoga therapist, military spouse, and mother. She lives on the sacred land of the Nisqually tribe in DuPont, WA.