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Homestead. Some prisoners have gophers, lizards, sparrows, praying mantises, black widows, and other spiders and snakes as pets. The very idea of incarcerating other beings in cells is absurd. Prisoners of all- all people must know how it feels to be caged and deprived of freedom. We went on lockdown at New Folsom, which meant confined to cells. And movement only to medical in handcuffs. First batch of Canadian geese arrived and homesteaded this mor. One pair of geese made it their territory, defended it from other geese and humans, that walked too close to the nest site. There was even one video of one officer who fell down in his haste to get away from the nest. It became a joke around the prison. I blended nature and bird images throughout my poetry because I wanted to show how we as human creatures, as fellow creatures, share space with other beings. Too long-time poet friends, Judith Tannenbaum and Kate [inaudible] send me a book, on all the North American birds, which was a blessing. Coming to prison, f