Poems

“An English Teacher Envies Superman”

Forget leaping tall buildings or

bullets bouncing off my chest,

I want his x-ray eyes to search

into my students and see

the hidden corners of their lives,

to learn enough about them

to teach them literature I love,

show them Shakespeare

and Twain, and Chaucer

my own superheroes

of the page and stage,

writers from long ago

who still have something

to say in my classroom, words

to touch their teenage souls.

Edwin Romond