the empty pier recedes
one stroke at a time
until a line of color
splits two fields
of blue the static
resisting the tsunami
metaphor an insignificant
body cannot support
I arrived to prison in 1997 at the age of nineteen. My writing has appeared in a number of journals, most recently Michigan Quarterly Review, The Normal School online, and AJI Magazine (forthcoming). I have received awards from PEN America’s Writing Awards for Prisoners multiple times in various genres.
