On the Window’s Ledge

Milton Jordan

September 15, 2024

That April barn swallows swooped beyond

our broad double window and you noticed

patterns peculiar to certain birds.

This spring, their numbers somewhat reduced,

the patterns of their flight more random

or you are investing less attention,

your interest focused on the fledgling

sitting, beak open expectantly,

outside our smaller bedroom window.  

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