Remembering Another Riverwalk

Milton Jordan

May 7, 2023

Our not so large river winds down out 

of low hills beneath the high arched bridge 

toward its delta to spread rusty clay color

over the bay bearing the river’s name

and fades around the island’s end adding

little color to the Gulf’s foaming breakers.

A graying boardwalk heads upriver from 

the bayshore where we walked cooler evenings

after our early supper, before

the local classics station broadcast

their nightly symphony or some nights

nocturnes and a round of chorales. 

Milton Jordan and Anne live now along the San Gabriel in Central Texas. Earlier they lived along East Texas Rivers near the Gulf.