Day 362

The boy wants to go to school
but there is no school.
There’s a tent where somebody’s mother
is teaching songs, but his mother is afraid
to let him go there.  He tries to remember
what it was like to go to school —
a room with tables, books, chairs —
and he wishes he could have
just one morning again
sitting with his friends,
waiting for the teacher, looking
out the windows to trees, fields,
everything where it was.  Everything
where it used to be.