Rethinking the Race

Milton Jordan

June 5, 2022

We had scheduled our dragons for later

but time ran short and our adversaries

hurled dragons of their own into the scrum

pushing us back along several fronts.

Dragons still unused, we yielded the field

to recalibrate strategy for more

effective electoral action.

Could we not pasture our dragons, lay down

our swords and line up new support 

with song birds flying and the harmony

of compassion rising above clang and roar? 

Will swords and dragons alone attract

public attention while soaring song 

and compassion’s harmony go unreported? 

Milton Jordan lives in Georgetown with 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.