Notes from Exile: Being Here
Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.
Another entry from my prison journal.
BEING HERE
The being here never
leaves[ you,
not even for a
moment.
Every morning starts
the same.
Day one or a thousand
and one,
I should be somewhere
else.
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This is a superb poem, in my view. "The being here never / leaves you" is such an evocative pair of lines. Thank you for posting this.