Parchman Prison Writing, Sunday Verses

Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative #7 of 11, published in the book Unit 29

REVOLT by Ronald Thompson

A rose that withers comes back still as strong as ever, beautiful to the sight.

I’ve sowed a Venus fly trap for these fools.

When the trap closes, the flower knows that she was never interested in you.

No interest in me still grew from within the concrete.

Supreme cracks in the heart, and a field emerges with flowers.

A lot of power stands like a man growing from the streets.