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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 36 - Fall 2007/Winter 2008

< Dedication
 
< Responses to Jena
 
< Legal Corner - Fighting for your rights: Parole
 
< Luchando por sus derechos
 
< Arrival
 
< Pledging My Love
 
< Suicide City
 
< More Suicides – Whose Responsibility?
 
< Oct. 20 Mobilization to Chowchilla’s Prisons
 
< Transforming Justice Conference
 
< The Visiting Room
 
< Free the New Jersey 4
 
< Parole Beat
 
< Court Threatens to Reverse Release
 
< Inadequate telephone service
 
< Inadecuado servicio telefónico
 
< What about the Jena 6?
 
< In memory of Virginia Garcia aka "Boy"
 
       

Arrival

Kelly Evans/Davison, Standish Facility, Michigan

Bright, shiny bracelets
Jangling on my arm
While metal snug about my waist
Chains dangling seductively between my legs

I am captured, but not subdued
They think they have me
But my mind wheels and soars and spins and shouts.

No prisoner, I am free to look
To see all that I ever have been
All that I may be.

I hold the small and sacred part of me close
Like a royal flush
My poker face must not betray.
They cannot touch it, not even in their dreams.

I am light and air and fire
I slip through their clutching fingers like the night.
Even as they rasp my puny wrist
Of simple bone and blood and flesh.

Body here, Spirit there.

I am still free!

Last updated January 15, 2008 01:37 PM


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