Master door lock for cells of a coastal California Military Prison, constructed in the 1960's.
Photo: "No Smoking, In Bed"
The stockade, at a former California military base, was designed to be a short-term holding for inmates, before being transfered to a penitentiary in Kansas.
Photo: "A Solitary Pain"
"Idly, up comes the sphere
vibrant daggers pierce, scorching the shadow
ashes on marble, frozen in time
and there, like just before dawn
lies a pile,
humanistic,
quiescent, friable, bend-able form
Hands creep round the mask
and stop."