Milton Jordan
September 24, 2023
Somehow with little if any regard
for failure to convict or for corrupt
politicians returned to high office,
white blossoms bloom across a once arid
meadow among the juniper and sweet gum
for the land takes a longer view of justice.
The land holds a long memory of justice
and its absence carried across unnumbered
generations and unmeasured miles of changing
terrain and altered thoughts on just behavior.
The land holds a long promise of justice
reappearing at times and in places
as unexpectedly as rain lilies
across recently dry grassy ground.
Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.
