Lawrence Hall, HSG
Prisoners Working in the Early Morning Rain
We have all worked in the
rain – building fences
Getting up the cows for
milking twice a day
Sloshing through the muck to
make deliveries
And usually with some
choice in the matter
Prisoners have choices too
– cells or a work detail
In designer costumes with horizontal
stripes
Not much of a choice, but
the work is needful and good
Picking up the litter of
freedom and patching the road
Through the wipers I wave.
They wave back. Rain -
We have all passed by our
fellow man in the rain
