Though one of the campers has suffered a death in the family,
the counselor didn't cancel the trip, because it wasn't raining.
In electric-blue camp T-shirts, the children wander the plotted acre;
the counselor chooses a granite slab on which to sun.
At the far edge, by the forest, the girl with the death drops her head.
The counselor watches her begin to weep. Now each finds the other
disappointing. They're young for the joke People never disappoint you,
meaning: of course they doyou can count on them to; you should
take a realistic approach. She pulls her Counselor T-shirt off
and reclines in her metallic bikini, breasts glinting.
When the children ask too much, she waits them out; that's her gift.
The mourning child is learning envy. They're already how they are.
