Imagine, a wall once refused to destroy
the well-trimmed hedge bordering the limits
around an 80 acre preserve set aside
to protect a few avian species found
nowhere beyond this border river valley
fiercely contested by forces far removed
from surrounding citrus groves now worked
by earlier harvesters’ grandchildren
and several cousins fearing their own
suddenly proclaimed deportation orders.
Click here to read Milton Jordan on the origin of the poem.
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Published posthumously with the permission of the poet’s family.
After some years along the Gulf of Mexico, Milton Jordan and Anne moved up the Brazos to live in Central Texas. Milton wrote poetry, some of which appeared in journals, a few chapbooks and two collections. He participated in the reading and writing community, Texas Poetry Assignment.