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Light through metal bars cast on concrete
Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash

Surrounded by armed men and barbed wire fences
Swallowed by thick solid gray concrete
Left with nothing but my own mind
That I use day and night
To dream about a light that
Upon sight slowly cures every ache.

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D. Hill is a poet incarcerated in California.