Seasonal Nostalgia

Milton Jordan

December 31, 2023

We showed interest then in things local,

still read our small city Daily Press 

each evening after supper, commented

on the newly hired school superintendent,

our downtown department store closing,

took the Houston papers Sunday only

with their expanded color comics sections,

Our sports pages then headlined local rivalries,

buried national rankings on page three,

bowl games began after Christmas, majors

on New Year’s Day when your hand-shelled blackeyes

simmered and my cornbread sat oven-ready,

our radio tuned to Lindsay Nelson

broadcasting live from a Fair Park press box. 

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.