Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Summer Break

Summer Break

If a woman sits outside for two hours
and returns home with eleven mosquito bites

how many bugs should she be angry with
and how many should she forgive

The jagged weeds I evicted from between
the marigolds fill half a brown yard waste bag

and when I fold the bag over it looks like
it holds an enormous lunch

I want to take marker to it and on it write the name
of an enormous child

Is this what an adult should do
I have stayed up till all hours wondering this

I am wringing extra hours from this day
just to squander them

2 comments

  1. Oh, this is great! especially loved and related to the last two stanzas.. "is this what an adult should do..." and "wringing extra hours from this day just to squander them." A pretty good definition of August!

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  2. So good. Love those last lines.

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