The Teacher Stares out of His Window Between Classes
- Mar 3
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 10
By James Dickson
1.
The shifting wind is
a volume dial for the crow
cawing in the field.
2.
Autumn zephyrs torment
the treetops, bully branches
of the lofty pines.
3.
I watch the silent
movie of the wind-whipped trees
through my closed window.
4.
Do spring breezes bend
the grass? Or is the wind moved
by their dancing tongues?
James Dickson teaches English and Creative Writing at Germantown High School, just outside of Jackson, MS. An MFA graduate from the Bennington Writing Seminars, he is the recipient of Mississippi Arts Commission fellowships, was named High School Literary Magazine Advisor of the Year by the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association in 2021, and was invited to speak at the National Educators Association 50th anniversary celebration “The Promise of Public Education.” His poems, book reviews, and essays appear in The Common, Ruminate, The Louisiana Review, Spillway, Slant, Salvation South, McSweeney’s, and other publications, and his debut collection, Some Sweet Vandal, was published by Kelsay Books in 2022. He lives in Jackson, MS, with his wife, their son, and a small menagerie of animals.
