THE CAMPUS

The campus spreadeagled
a long, long way,
and students would lose
their bearings
Paths short shrifted
all the telling signs

Islands of trees and meadow flowers
thought to smooth the worried brows
of newer students
mishmashing timetables
and forgetting 
why they had come

Checking mobile phones
to see if dad had sent the payments,
and walking the long way round
to low-built dormitories
under clouds of slow to end
misapprehension