Danielle Dixon

“wishes the distance he traveled was something with him, & not the way he stole away from things he couldn’t handle.”
― Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon

“You cast a ballot for a Black man in America while holding a Black baby. Name a dream more American than that, especially with your three felonies serving as beacons to alert anybody of your reckless ambition. That woman beside you is the kind of thing fools don’t even dream about in prison & she lets you hold your boy while voting, as if the voting makes you & him more free.”
― Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon

“I keep praying my woman, who is no more mine than any woman can belong to a man, but is her own, constellation of music & desire, as is anyone, will forgive history, knowing a thousand angels stand beside, exhausted, too, though certain the heft of their wings will bring a gale fierce enough to lift this hurt that we refuse to name.”
― Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon

“not when the accumulation of our yesterdays hang like the last dusk before us— each memory another haunting thing.”
― Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon