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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 37 - Spring 2008

< Dedication
 
< "Caged" Mental Health
 
< Legal Corner - Coleman v. Wilson on mental health
 
< Without hope I can't cope
 
< Lack of Mental Health Care at VSPW Puts Everyone at Risk
 
< Editorial - Caged Mental Health
 
< Editorial - Salud Mental Enjaulada
 
< Introducing new CCWP staff members
 
< CCWP hosts Without Walls radio show
 
< Family Visiting Day, 2008
 
< CURB sues to stop AB900
 
< Mental health in prisoners' experience
 
< The union we yearn for
 
< Statewide Demonstrations Against the Runner Initiative
 
< CCWP's volunteer appreciation
 
< FAMM's Commutations Project
 
< "Grief Share" program at CCWF
 
< Parole Beat
 
< Marsy’s Law -- threat to parole
 
< STOPMAX Campaign conference
 
< It's Your Health - Medications schedule change
 
< Too late for Sista K!
 
< Prison Creative Arts Project
 
       

The union we yearn for

by Deirdre Wilson

Containment
a private prison
the nature of
every human soul.
A struggle to be
without limitation
of the senses,
without sense
Of separation

To know...
Ocean's tide courses through my pulsing veins
Moon glows in my bone's marrow
Sun shines from my heart
Earth roots my entire being

To feel...
Ethereal hues of the rainbow
The dance of shining stars
Bright yellow daffodils
Majesty of pines stretching for the sky.

To walk...
With the ancient ones
My grandmothers on either side
Brother Malcolm
-my anchor, my guide
-my proof of unalloyed good.
Crazy Horse, you are my dreams.
St. Claire and Teresa
Young souls, brave and true
Hearts like raging coals
Burning
for union

Union...
We yearn for
Namaste
All is one
And yet
Bars are everywhere
Swirling psyches
Wrapped in flesh
A solitary walk
Under the firmament
Of heaven
Piercing the veil
In glimpses
Of
Clarity.


Last updated July 21, 2008 01:06 PM


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