Notes from Exile: Forgotten
Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.
This week’s Justice Notes explored Exisle—the long shadow of incarceration and the psychic distance it creates between a man and the world he once belonged to. This is a piece I wrote in prison when the weight of disconnection overwhelmed me.
FORGOTTEN
Log/Verse
Note: Woodlawn is the cemetery where generations of my family are buried.
I wonder how long before
I’m forgotten,
or is being remembered
the greater
pain.
Sometimes oblivion is
the greater
gift.
Before the final lowering
in our beloved
Woodlawn,
I’ll probably know them
all.
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