The prison wall …

East facing prison wall

secures and withholds inmates

reflects rising sun …

As I finish No. 3 sack of a set called the Mask and Mutant Covid19 looms in the Home Counties; I wonder.  This piece is called the wall and is a prison wall and in particular that of Clink Prison at Southwark. Built in the 12^th Century it is one of England’s oldest and most notorious prisons and built of brick unlike mine made of stone.  I live near the also famous Reading Gaol; neither of which are attractive places nor should they be. I feel sadness for some prisoners who find themselves not only isolated from family and kind human life but in squalid conditions. One hopes that prison life is a little more humane in the 21^st century.  To that end my prison wall has a tiny glow reflected by the rising sun.