At Trinity Bay

Milton Jordan

March 1, 2022

Generations ago 

slaves, some say, cut

these three terraces

Along the seaward slope

of this rounded mound

to reach water’s edge

Where we sit one terrace

above the steadily

climbing shoreline.

Milton Jordan lives in Georgetown with the musician Anne Elton Jordan. His most recent poetry collection is What the Rivers Gather, SFASU Press, 2020. Milton edited the anthology, No Season for Silence: Texas Poets and Pandemic, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2020.