my qualms are quieted, and my wiles are sharper than ever.. my body travels across campus, carried on the lightest air of the crispest morning. my core is filled with warmth, intractable against the bone-chill that draws the breath of students like smoke in the air. there's something in my step, something in the way my foot hits the ground, that concretizes today's whim. perhaps it is the capricious way in which my weight shifts toe-to-heel, heel-to-toe, or the way that pebbles scatter from underfoot like debris from an explosion.
i've got my favorite songs playing in both ears, background music to the florid nostalgia that keeps my more frivolous thoughts company. my insides twist with the rise and fall of the chorus, and suddenly i feel as if my feet are lifting off the ground. sunlight crawls up my arms, fills my chest, and comes to rest on my uncreased forehead. every nerve ending is alive with the new day, creating an electricity that puts the birds in the trees above me into song.
i search the faces of passersby for some hint of rapport, and i find it brewing like a well-kept secret in the smooth brow and the smiling mouth of a handsome boy dressed in a handsome coat. the momentary spark between us is mischievous, nurtured in the facetious grin that paints both of our faces as we peer up from under eyelashes at the other.
i'm back from my soul vacation
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