Gray Dawn

By Dr. Carol Sing

I want to take you on a journey that may alter your "mindscape." This is a book of mental snapshots taken while people were caught in a situation not of their own choosing. Poetry provides us an avenue to share the thoughts of others in the hope of increasing understanding as to what we experienced in the world of the incarcerated, along with those "outside" helping. Yes, these poems were written in a prison camp during the years 2015 - 2017. Writing continued in a halfway house from 2017 - 2018, where some of the staff truly tried to help people transition back to reality.

These are poems of passion. I, and the people and events that made these poems possible, are reaching out to you through the beauty of language.

Mass incarceration, especially under the amorphous concepts of conspiracy and intent, must end. One in four Americans has been caught in our prison system at some relatively recent point in time. This trend has become a business, costing taxpayers enormous sums of money.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546225409

Dr. Carol Sing

Evidentiary inference of intent, not the commitment of a crime, got Ms. Carol Sing 36 months in prison and 36 months of probation, or six years of incarceration and the threat of re-incarceration. This pulled the 78-year-old author, with no criminal history, away from her loved ones, away from her valuable environmental work, and away from saving lives. Ms. Sing has devoted her life to environmentally productive causes for over 50 years. You can contact her at [e-mail].

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/19/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-2539-3 (sc)

978-1-5462-2540-9 (e)

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Excerpt of Sentencing Decision as Background Information:

No Greater Love—Vignette

No Greater Love

Birthday Soliloquy and Where is My Son?—Vignette

A Birthday Soliloquy

Where is My Son?

The Light—Vignette

The Light

Our Planet—Vignette

Our Planet

Freedom—Vignette

Freedom

A Warden’s Humanism…One Heart, The Message and Icon—Vignette

One Heart

The Message

Icon

Chrysalis—Vignette

Chrysalis

Core Philosophy—Vignette

Core Philosophy

A Leader Evolved—Vignette

A Leader Evolved

The Pirates of Penance—Vignette

The Pirates of Penance

Transcendence—Vignette

Transcendence

Starbound—Vignette

Starbound

Steadfast—Vignette

Steadfast

Ode to Eagle Feather—Vignette

Ode to Eagle Feather

Mentor—a poem written to Carol Sing from Eagle Feather

Fortitude—Vignette

Fortitude

Saint George—Vignette

Saint George

A Linear Dream—Vignette

A Linear Dream

Herstory—Vignette

Herstory

Games

Conundrum

Scavenger Hunt

Answers to Scavenger Hunt:

Scavenger Hunt: Second Version

Answers to the Second Scavenger Hunt:

Find-the-Face Puzzle—Rules

Find-the-Face Puzzle

Find-the-Face Puzzle Key

Finale

This book is

dedicated to the love of my life, my husband, Gary Sing, and to the unmitigated support of our beloved son, Justin.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to all the participants who shared their lives with me during this period of time. I will be forever grateful for their kindness, concern, help, and trust. Linda Blumenthal, my editor, spent hours dissecting, correcting, and suggesting changes. Her insight and due diligence made this publication possible in its present form. John Banks Jr has been brilliant