The Birds That Don’t Sing

Daniel BrooksJuly 2, 2019

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The Birds That Don't Sing

written by: Daniel Brooks

I fear incarceration
Like the living fear
Death
I fear the point of
No return
I fear that nothing about
Me matters
I fear incarceration like
Like children fear
Monsters
I fear being confined
To slabs of concrete
& metal bars
I fear the deprivation
The violence the
Inhumanity
I fear for my freedom
I fear that they’ll pry
It from my clammy
Hands
I am afraid
I am terrified
Of those
Walls

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Daniel Brooks is from Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University Purdue University in 2015 with a BA in Anthropology. He has since been a community organizer and is now a special education teacher. His work can be seen in the Indianapolis Review and Poets United to End Homelessness.

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I live in the small town of Long Lake, Minnesota, west of Minneapolis. I worked many years as a sales and technical training instructor. I began writing seriously in 2011 by writing a poem a day for a year. I loved the process and stayed with, focusing on rhymed poems and haiku. In 2015 I met a fellow writer who encouraged me to begin writing short stories. I did. In early 2018 I submitted my first story on-line and it was featured on CafeLit. I have been off and running since then. Bridge House Publishing is releasing a collection of twenty-seven of my stories later in 2020. I love the process of coming up with an idea and creating a story that hopefully has both emotional impact and is interesting to read. I have no plans on stopping. Many thanks to Spillwords for featuring my stories, and thank you to those who read them and who voted for me. It is truly an honor to have been selected as Author of the Month.