A Wider Vision

Milton Jordan

May 19, 2024

You drive, he said, and tossed me his keys 

freeing himself again to scan details 

of the tangled Thicket, reclaim his memories

with ongoing observations, polished 

in routine retellings that embellish

tales of long familiar routes, patiently

pointing out today, scenes I’ve ignored

on yesterday’s parallel journeys. 

I have come late to his lessons and lack

yet the patience for driving slower routes

and back roads or the necessary

attention of his wide-angled vision.

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