Gardens in Hell

By Judith Trustone 

From the narrow slit they call a window, 
he watches geese waddling in committed pairs, 
pigeons soaring over gun turrets and high walls, 
flowers blooming against those walls in a 
blaze of vibrant color in this place of Death, 
while he waits and waits and waits 
​on Death Row. 

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