Early Summer Funerals

Trees quiver in the hot quiet
Sunlight and white soaking into the hollow marble halls
Like the formaldehyde seeps
Into the sleeping marble eyes of the pigs
In the faraway biology room. The cold scent of mint and acid-
Above, the leaves shiver with the warmth of these early summer deaths
As school buses on the serpentine hill reflect the sky that has collected between the hills.