Recounting Dreams

Milton Jordan

September 24, 2023

Hearing too many real reminders

of too many interrupted dreams,

we settled in one humid afternoon 

along the Lower Neches to recount 

the dreams, ignore the interruptions 

and tally the numerous stops we’ve made     

during this fifty year journey.

We sought at first to catalog the towns

where we’d lived, but on second thought

limited that too long list to three year

or longer stays, and even then debated

the order of our fourth and fifth riversides,  

but gave up the count for supper around six 

and listened to an Astros game at seven.

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