The Day the Bombs Stopped

Milton Jordan

November 12, 2023

You have nine hours to vacate this area

the sergeant said, standing at our front door 

and take your possessions with you.

What possessions? Mother said. We live here.

Anything you want to save, he barked;

this suspension is temporary,

then turned and marched his squad away.

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.