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