Summer Persists

Our summer fellowships are over! We learned a lot - for instance - how summer’s a lot less fun when you’re hemmed-up, inside working. I mean, we preesh’d the clinical experience, the learning, and especially how good these fellowships will look on our med-school applications - seriously - but there were a hundred rules - aren’t rules incompatible with summer? Hmm, Ok, let’s see, something poetic.. As the summer sun's blistering radiance waned, shadows, muscled by sunrays to the marginal edges and corners, gradually spread, like water - soothing, lenifying and assuaging simmered nerves with their refreshing, canopied touch. If sunlight scorched with heat, twilight soothed and gentled, while varnishing, the dimming world with rainbow, event-horizons, larger, more inventive, colorful and glorious than any mere mortal art. Night gradually squeezed, unseen, through those vivid sunset cracks, and refreshing night-air, drawn in by the last, escaping updrafts of heat, rustled cooling relief to weary workers seeking the solace of evening and home. back to unpoetic realities.. When work was finished, we’d retreat from the heat, racing up to the rooftop pool, like two happy porpoises out of school. Whoever invented poolside food delivery, should win the Nobel Prize for ‘thank you very much.’ We wouldn’t go back to our rooms until it was dark and we’d started to prune. Now, we’ve a month to relax before our Junior year begins. We got letters from Yale that said, “As upperclassmen..” “Upperclassmen!” We shouted as we danced in hand-holding circles, singing, “Upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen. upperclassmen.” We’ve grown so much at Yale.