Of Old Texas Poets
Milton Jordan
March 26, 2023
Old Texas Poets
surrounded by blank verse boxcars stacked
one above another up the page,
stare at last week’s sidetracked compositions,
and wait for an eight-wheeled locomotive
burning coal and belching steam to back itself
up to those squared stanzas and move a few
into some assembly of meaning
either ironic or surprising enough
to attract post post-modern attention
hoping that one more realignment
could pull them into combinations seeming
almost to belong on the Cotton Belt’s rails.
Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.