A Year on the Brazos

Milton Jordan

May 5, 2024

Yesterday when today was tomorrow

the river rushed past town in spring surge

mud-red and roiling, excited by April, 

and unwilling to abide in its banks.

Today was tomorrow yesterday

and the town settled into summer,

the river’s slow flow within its banks,

muddy but well below roiling.

Tomorrow’s today now far behind yesterday,

the hot dry summer stretched into autumn,

streams trickling around muddy islands 

toward the dwindling current’s winter bed. 

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