Outside Stateville Correctional Center
POETRY
by Devon Brock
They watch us, the convicts
drooped on the fences—as we,
the young boys, over and back,
detassel corn in an unmarked field.
Unnerved by the wire and the towers,
we watch them, the convicts,
out of the corners of our eyes,
drooped on the fences, our forearms
shredded by leaves.
Devon Brock is a line cook and poet living in South Dakota. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, The William & Mary Review, Passengers Journal, West Trade Review, and elsewhere.
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