Storage Space: A Collection of Contemporary Verse by Darren A. Stein - HTML preview

Bahama Sunset in Soweto (1994)

Perhaps we will sit like PostRevolutionary Cubans in their sidewalk cafes and Spanish Squares, puffing contentedly on aromatic cigars;

We will sip beer in our shebeens, and laugh together with a sense of collective satisfaction at some accomplishment—a scale now tilted in our just favor.

And we will smile, over fermented bellies, at a future full of hope, and vague promises of freedom.