Poetry Corner: I Make Promises Before I Dream
I Make Promises Before I Dream [excerpt] © 2021 by Tongo Eisen-Martin No unclaimed, cremated mothers this year Nor collateral white skin No mothers folding clothes to a corporate park preamble No sons singing under the bright lights of a lumber yard Quantum reaganomics and the tap steps of turning on a friend New York trophy parts among the limbs of decent people Being an enraged artist [...]