Notes from Exile: Being Here
Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.
In yesterday’s Justice Notes, I wrote about the difficulty of being present—something I’ve struggled with my entire life, long before prison. This Log/Verse was written inside, at a point when the sense of “being nowhere” had become a daily condition. Looking back, it captures how easily an old habit can turn into a way of being.
BEING HERE
Prison Journal
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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