Lawrence
Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Home - Hello Poetry
Hearts and Minds and Books Open to the Autumn Air
The Dreaming Water Towers of State
University
“ In the quad, where we lay our scene…”
-As Shakespeare did not say
Math
students whose favorite dessert was always pi
Engineering
students with leather scabbards at their belts
Ready
to charge into battle with their Kueffel and Essers
Against
heretics who believed in “It’s close enough”
Historians
who made the acorns drop
With
their thunderous defenses of Pirenne
And
measured Turner’s western frontier thesis
Against
the Czarist empire’s eastern lands
English
majors (and maybe French lieutenants)
Free-versifiers
arguing against disciplined meter
The
next Rod Mckuen with his guitar
Biologists
considering an ant’s nutritional needs
And
hearts and minds and books, books everywhere -
All
open to thought and the autumn air
It wasn’t that dreamy; I worked the night shift seven
nights each week and often double shifts on the weekends in order to live and
study, and so was constantly tired. But there were indeed golden moments…
