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Issue 16 - December 2000

Haiku from Writers Workshop


by Patricia Coyne, FCI Dublin


Slave lines of ants march
through the key hole of my door
I’m more free than they.
~~~~
The pink sun turns our
Prison into Hallmark
Disney-like pastels.
~~~~
Inmates thirst for love
They drink it in each other
Like sugar water.

August 19, 2003December 14, 2012

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