Specials for Weekend 8.16.24
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, and so we try to wring the last bits of sunny joy out of each day—before Fall comes, and a different sort of joy appears. No food specials this weekend, the bar is closed on Saturday for a private event, but we will have breakfast sandwiches and bloody marys/mimosas on Sunday!
“Cicadas at the End of Summer”
Whine as though a pine tree is bowing a broken violin,
As though a bandsaw cleaves a thousand thin sheets of
titanium;
They chime like freight wheels on a Norfolk Southern
slowing into town.
But all you ever see is the silence.
Husks, glued to the underside of maple leaves.
With their nineteen fifties Bakelite lines they’d do
just as well hanging from the ceiling of a space
museum —
What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallized memory;
The stubborn detail of, the shape around a life turned
The color of forgotten things: a cold broth of tea & milk
in the bottom of a mug.
Or skin on an old tin of varnish you have to lift with
lineman’s pliers.
A fly paper that hung thirty years in Bird Cooper’s pantry
in Brighton.
–Martin Walls