A Calm Descends Over the City.

With final exams wrapping up yesterday and nearly 30,000 university students packing up to begin the mass exodus homeward for summer, a strange calm has descended upon the city this morning. Albeit a calm littered with burnt-out couches, splintered desks and sheaves of paper left in the wake of student experience. It seems so recently wide-eyed students descended upon the city in anticipation of fall classes and renewed acquaintances. Eager, with unburnished Ikea Allen keys and a freezer full of home cooking.

And now, the city gets a reprieve as it sheds its skin for a few months prior to an injection of new energy, and new life, again in September.

move out day in the student ghetto

Empty shells in the shadows,
contents outed
haunted by the whispers of shouts,
echoing still.

A year's story written in the scattered trail
of colourful packaging
(new and improved!)
leading to the horse trailer idling outside.

2007.05.01