Minor Regrets

Milton Jordan

May 12, 2024

An actively practical woman

Mother insisted she’d inherited

her style from her mother, but we soon 

noticed Grandmother’s rebel spark

of impractical activity,

afternoons spent phoning a few old friends,

and her sudden supper decisions 

to call Prince’s for hamburgers,

though much later yet, Mother explained,

with some minor regret, her obsession

for proper order, an over reaction

to her mother’s seeming disarray.

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