Milton Jordan

Milton Jordan lives in Georgetown, Texas, with his wife, musician Anne Jordan. He has published essays, poems, reviews, and stories in literary and general circulation journals.

Garden Lessons

Tomorrow you will learn the language

of dirt, the inflections of growing things,

what each stalk drains up out of the earth,

turning one direction then another,

flexible in its strength, bending with wind

and stretching away from every comfort

of lifelessness, reaching each day above

itself and depending on nothing

but that creative tugging toward the sun.

— Milton Jordan