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Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration

Murry

from PRESUMPTION

How many trains
did we jump that year
How many books did we wedge
in those doors, our legs
sticking out like semaphores.

These are the moments
I bring you
coming as always on swollen feet,
my urine bag dangling
an attache case, and my face
a bruised, brown peach

Calvin Murry. Prisoner Aboard the S.S. Beagle (1983)

Cover, Prisoner Aboard the S.S. Beagle. Drawing. Calvin Murry.
Bio of Calvin Murry, with portrait.