Summer

Beginning of Summer Holiday 5/22/2011
I cleaned my desk,
the papers stacked and filed,
and in their place
are journals filled with empty pages;
Tolkien rests on top of Plato.

The brown leather shoes are put away,
shelved and empty,
and in their place
are hiking boots,
long laces running to the ground.

My khaki pants hang flat and still,
invisible feet beneath,
and in their place,
blue jeans run to the floor,
my feet beneath them,

standing at the screen door...