Bronx Bajans
we would take the train to brooklyn
leaving the bronx
down through harlem
out to prospect park
bergen street and franklin avenue
where everyone was cousin
aunt and uncle
where talk was about back home
and who died
and who got married
and who we were
we were always reminded
on sundays
Notes:
“Bronx Bajans” was originally published in Migrant Worker (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 1978) and is part of the folio “E. Ethelbert Miller: Friendship Is What Keeps Us Whole.” Read the rest of the folio in the November 2025 issue of Poetry.
Source: Poetry (November 2025)