Justice in the Land

Milton Jordan

September 24, 2023

Somehow with little if any regard

for failure to convict or for corrupt

politicians returned to high office,

white blossoms bloom across a once arid

meadow among the juniper and sweet gum

for the land takes a longer view of justice.

The land holds a long memory of justice

and its absence carried across unnumbered 

generations and unmeasured miles of changing 

terrain and altered thoughts on just behavior.

The land holds a long promise of justice

reappearing at times and in places

as unexpectedly as rain lilies

across recently dry grassy ground.

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