Poetry: Selections from S.F. Wright

She Dreams of Strangers

She dreams

Of strangers.

 

Her parents—

On the wall’s

Other side.

Job

To dislike your job is one thing;

To abhor it is another;

And nothing inspires hatred

Of your profession more

Than teenagers.

 

A few can be decent;

Most aren’t.

Quickly,

Your initial enthusiasm

Turned to apathy, disgust.

And they sense this,

Which breeds

Like feelings.

 

Those moments—

Inspiring someone,

Teaching someone—

Where are they?

In better schools,

Or maybe just

In movies.

 

You are in neither.

Inspiration

“Moments of genius”

Are like

Invisible

Spinning

Dust.

S.F. Wright lives and teaches in New Jersey. His work has appeared in Hobart, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, and Elm Leaves Journal, among other places. His short story collection, The English Teacher, is forthcoming from Cerasus Poetry.