Exercises in Electioneering
Milton Jordan
December 27, 2021
Our Governor’s proclamations walled ‘round
with adjectives and filled with vague nouns
carefully hid his avoidance behind
participles and abdicated all
responsibility specific verbs
might make clear, leaving us to work out
our own understanding of any plan
he proposed beyond his re-election…
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.
