Some Years Later

Milton Jordan

June 9, 2024

The two photographs share a synoptic

quality, hung with others along the stairs 

above the first landing, the woman, 

younger then, in the season’s standard 

skirt, letter sweater and saddle oxfords 

at the front fender of an early forties 

black Chevy sedan, luggage ready to load.

In an adjacent frame a full color 

image of a strikingly similar

figure at the open driver’s door

of her deep red ‘64 El Camino,

faded Levis, Tony Lamas and a crisp 

white, button collared shirt, the standard

that season, her luggage already loaded.

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