An Installation Ode To a Courageous People

Milton Jordan

May 2, 2022

They grew a few sunflowers spaced along

fence rows fronting the county road east

of the house and that year when blossoms turned

toward morning she hung several blue banners

in gaps between those bright yellow flowers

that one area station featured 

with film in their coverage of local

responses to events in Europe.

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown. His collection, "A Forest for the Trees," is due this summer from Backroom Window Press. He is editing an anthology from the first year of the Texas Poetry Assignment.