I remember death by its proximity to what I love most

In this long-form poem, award-winning poet Mahogany L. Browne excavates and interrogates the grief, shame, and silence that that surround America’s system of mass incarceration, which extend far beyond the prison walls. Here is a timely and personal intervention into a growing public conversation about the brutality and injustice of the US prison system, and its reverberating impacts.