Tag: Amongst

The visitation room at Raleigh Central Prison is small, dark and oppressive. It is divided in half by a thick glass sheet, encased in a rusted, steel frame. The tiny space is stiflingly hot. If I stretch my arms, I can touch both concrete walls at the same time. The glare from the overhead light mak...

Diminished. I heard that word, conveying as it does that sense of decline, a decline already in motion, like a step down that can’t be reversed. When a person or thing is “diminished,” can it reverse itself? I heard that word as a statement about what the United State’s re...