Predictable

Milton Jordan

October 30, 2022

Leaders of the refashioned Know-Nothings

in Texas gleefully devise an end

for faculty tenure and seek to rewrite

course content well beyond their grade level

as they steadily dismantle

the academic stature of the state’s

public schools and universities.

Second-level schools in distant states

expect flurries of resumes this season

from promising young Texas faculty,

while newly minted PhDs in every field

refuse offers from the state’s premier

institutions for instructor’s contracts

at extension campuses in New England. 

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. His most recent poetry collection is A Forest for the Trees from Backroom Window Press, 2022.