Sometimes I look across to the college
I can see the brick buildings and the five turrets –
the Chapel, Brute, Verdier, Burlando…
In the mild March evening at 6Pm before dark, I
imagine that over there, across the lawn,
The college is going on with its life as it did fifty
years ago.
My young self and my friends
are there, leaving the dining hall and walking back to the dorms, laughing and
talking. The next day’s classes, the
papers due, the ideas that rose from that day’s lectures… the boyfriends…
What did we talk about?
I see them as ghosts, and a lump rises in my throat…
the days that are no more, but that weirdly, live within us.
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