Quieter Crowds

Milton Jordan

July 14, 2024

Now a solo guitarist touring

the nostalgia circuit, she smiled, nodding

acknowledgment to our scattered applause 

at the opening chords of that early hit

she’d performed with her Saddle Valley Sisters, 

a world-class fiddle, the second guitar 

backup vocalist and a bass player 

in the spotlights of much larger venues

when we were a much more raucous crowd.

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