Waning Days

When S’Mores Aren’t Enough: New Economics of Summer Camp

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/business/summer-camps-are-facing-new-economics.html?hpw

Waking early to reveille at the flag pole

Mosquito-bitten and  hungry

Retreat to cafeteria of timber

For powdered eggs and blueberry waffles

Towering plates passed by sticky little hands

Bug juice in day- glow pink or electric blue

Days filled with rowboats and canoes,

Archery lessons and horseback riding through wooded paths

Swimming in a pond rimmed with lotus

Chasing throaty frogs and running from thin snakes

Weaving ropy bracelets and writing letters home

Singing camp songs

By the firelight

In the waning days of summer