Sacred

Illustration by Anja Rydén

The moment is now
one star in a collective

of stars

We must now

celebrate our differences

our sameness

our shameness

We must elevate

and celebrate the mess

we created

we must step deep

away from the shore

We must step deep

into the shit

and transform it

Now is the time

now is the moment

the call to love

the call to celebrate love

And realize

there are no distant stars

but only one galaxy of stars

We must gather

at the water holes

at the river of our souls

We must gather

like water buffalos

in love

Spoon Jackson

Bartstow - the film

"Barstow" Rainer Komers' documentary is screening at SF DocFest 5th and 7th of June! The film

looks at what life is like on the opposite side of the American Dream. Barstow is also Spoon's hometown and he reads excerpts from his and Judith Tannenbaum's memoir "By Heart" in the film.

"The film is a poignant and multi-layered portrait of the life and landscape of the Mojave Desert. Structured in a loose way, that almost allows comparisons to John Fahey's spare fingerpicking, like a skeletal blues lost in time, the film observes how life weaves itself in and outside the texture of an American life that the ideology of neo-liberal policies has completely forgotten. The voice of poet and inmate Stanley "Spoon" Jackson, who began serving a life sentence without possibility of parole in 1977 and has since then served time in more than a half dozen California state prisons, reads excerpts from his autobiography By Heart while images of a world suspended drenched in pure American mythology are intercut, drowned in the brutal reality and consequences of ruthless financial politics. BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA is truly the other side of the American dream." 
From IMDB

Uncuffed

Uncuffed is a radio series with interviews produced by men inside Solano State Prison, aired on KALW.com radio. Spoon is one of them.

The producers come from all walks of life. They are poets, musicians, actors, and writers who share a passion for revealing the human side of incarceration.
Listen to all the stories on Uncuffed. Uncuffed is supported by Arts in Corrections, a program of the California Arts Council with funding from CDCR.