Month: October 2023

by Keith Erickson, Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, CA Last night I called my wife, something I do each and every night before we both turn in for the evening and we went through our extensive prayer list. Just five minutes later while checking the messages on the contact’s list of my inmate issued tablet, I was alarmed by a message left from my wife to call home again, as it was urgent.  I listened to the words of my wife as she cried, “Please sit down, Keith,” and her words pierced right through me as she read the

by Raymond White, Corcoran State Prison in Corcoran, CA The flow of blood has no weightBut contains distilled and rich measureThat streams warm like one hundredRivers of eternity; just think of theBlue sky more higher than the Eiffel TowerIn Paris, more elevated than wingsOf countless flocks of birds heavenlyDistance by flight travelThat drifts along white clouds beyondThe human eyes distinction, I can onlySpeak for what pure nature I trulyFeel and see past hundred mile coveredFresh grass fields, or wolves and deerRunning content across the soiled dirtIn rain forest all these beautiful thingsIn clear sights of journies I haveLived by experience,