In Defense of Zoning
Milton Jordan
May 7, 2023
County engineers constructed the low wall
along the ditch — sometimes a rock-bottomed swale —
bordering our subdivision built beyond
the then city’s limits to avoid
regulations developers called onerous,
and Council’s annexation decree
grandfathered all prior construction
leaving our first finished houses backed up
on this still open, oft flowing, ditch
bearing its noticeable aroma.
Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.
