Notes from Exile: Revelations
Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.
This week’s Log/Verse follows Justice Notes: Being Authentic. In confinement, routine becomes a mirror, and whatever stories we tell others, and ourselves, eventually falls away.
REVELATIONS from my prison journal
We arrive blind but
branded.
The community a tangled
mystery of fear and
dread,
our identities on
hold.
But over time
no one can
hide,
not even from
yourself.
The drudgery of our
routine,
the real selves
emerge.
Naked as that day
in court,
when the gavel
sounded.
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