What a busy weekend in Lockport in mid-January, so much going on it’s like we don’t care how cold it is. Oh right, we don’t. For our wee part of the festivities, we have Open Mic with Andy Swift on Friday, and Mark Connors playing every song ever made on Saturday, then snacks and libation for the Bills game. Plus some food specials on Friday and Saturday, good golly. And it’s Danielle’s birthday Sunday!
“Say This”
I live a small life, barely bigger than a speck,
barely more than a blip on the radar sweep
though it is not nothing, as the garter snake
climbs the rock rose shrub and the squirrel creeps
on bramble thorns. Not nothing to the crows
who heckle from the crowns of the last light’s trees
winterstripped of green, except for the boles
that ivy winds each hour round. See, the world is busy
and the world is quick, barely time for a spider
to suck the juice from a hawk moth’s head
so it can use the moth as a spindle that it wraps in fiber
while the moth constricts until it’s thin as a stick
you might think was nothing, a random bit
caught in a web coming loose from the window frame, in wind.
–Lucia Perillo
Food Specials:
Goat Merguez Meatballs in Spicy Tomato sauce w/rice and squash — $11
Hearts of Palm Salad — $5/$7