Protected Welcomes

Milton Jordan

June 21, 2022

We have walled ourselves away from the pool

along the bend where the river turns east,

while our neighbors from whom we’re now protected

still swim most early evenings in spring

as we once did when the water was up

and suspicions politicians urged were not.

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