Subscribe to RSS  |  Advertise with us
site logo
  • HOME
  • ONLINE CONTENT
    • FICTION
    • POETRY
    • ART
  • PODCAST
  • SUBMIT
  • CONTACT
  • SHOP
Homepage > Online Content > Poetry > Poetry: I Keep Dreaming About My Elementary School Gym Teacher
March 25, 2020  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: I Keep Dreaming About My Elementary School Gym Teacher

Alex Ewing

I Keep Dreaming About My Elementary School Gym Teacher by Alex Ewing

 

She wore short shorts

Really short

I remember her legs

Tanned and toned

In gym class, I remember

The games we used to play

Dodge Ball, Parachute, Scoop Ball

She keeps appearing in my dreams

She is holding the dodge ball

Searching for a victim

She is bouncing the dodge ball

Seductively, like a big cherry

She is catching the tennis balls

between her Popsicle stick legs

I’m hot and thirsty and

I want a lick of the Popsicle

Bright, red as the cherry ball

Bounding towards my middle

She is wearing the parachute

Like a toga, twirling

Around and around

The colors swirl and I am watching

She is opening and closing the parachute

Like a private show, underneath

Exposing her bare chest on top and

Below still wearing those shorts

Small and tight and I am wondering

How she fits anything in there at all

I am wondering even more than that…

You just would not believe the things she

Did with that ball scoop!


Alex Ewing’s poems have appeared in Genre Urban Arts, Rigorous, Abstract Contemporary Expressions, Juked, Dying Dahlia, Poetry Superhighway and more. Her fiction has appeared in Not Your Mother’s Breastmilk. She lives in central Ohio.

alex ewing coming of age featured poem of the week i keep dreaming about my elementary school gym teacher LGBTQ poems poetry straylight straylight literary magazine straylight online

Article by .

Previous StoryPoetry: Leaving Upon Exit
Next StoryPoetry: The Old Green One

Related Articles:

  • BuchaCoverBig
    Poetry: Bucha 2022 by Allison Carroll
  • TheBath_Cover
    Poetry: The Bath by David Sapp

SEARCH

The Pub

RECENT POSTS

  • Poetry: Bucha 2022 by Allison Carroll November 29, 2023
  • Poetry: The Bath by David Sapp November 15, 2023
  • Fiction End of the Bench by Logan Markko November 13, 2023
  • Fiction FEATURED AUTHOR: Ruth Ticktin’s Returned November 6, 2023
  • Fiction FEATURED AUTHOR: Ruth Ticktin’s A Visit October 30, 2023

CALENDAR

December 2023
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Nov    
Straylight Literary Magazine. ©2019. All Rights Reserved