Fishing Lines

Milton Jordan

March 19, 2023

In his seldom used garage we found stored

supplies from sixty-five springtimes on the bays, 

bayous and sluggish streams of our corner 

of the Gulf Coast, fly rods and spinning rigs, 

the lines and lures those might require 

and standing against the side wall for those

slow down summer days, two well worn cane poles

bobbers and hooks strung on neatly wound leader,

his stringer and bait basket on the floor below.

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown in Central Texas. He spent his early years along East Texas rivers, the Trinity, and the Neches, his father's favorite watercourse.