Michael Mark, Author at Minutes Before Six

Poetry by Michael Mark

UntitledBy Michael P. Mark Jr. Thine eyes divineThou hast left me without lifeTo live is to…

If you have experience with the “criminal justice” system, then you’re probably familiar with certain cliché…

Davey sat in his dark, dank cell listening to the sounds of a scaffold being built…

“My Addiction” is an essay that was written in 2017. I was locked away in a…

She was by far the ugliest girl I’d ever seen. I couldn’t stop looking at her…

It is an unseasonably hot day in late January when I arrive at the Correctional Training…

Prison work seems to attract those of a certain personality and creed. This is what I’ve…

On the outskirts of the Big City lies my village, Hua T’ktan. The name probably looks…

Imagine a daycare center, the toddler room, to be more exact. The smell of soiled pants…