Fireworks are wonderful, lighting up the sky like your eyes were closed and you’re looking at your own synapses, but please, explain the joy in sitting on your porch at 3 in the afternoon tossing firecrackers onto the driveway? Over and over again? That seems, well, sad. Anyway, we will be closed on the 4th to celebrate by throwing firecrackers on the driveway all day, back Saturday with some food specials and then Sonic Legacy joins us in the Grove on Sunday 2-5 for some music!
“American Smooth”
We were dancing—it must have
been a foxtrot or a waltz,
something romantic but
requiring restraint,
rise and fall, precise
execution as we moved
into the next song without
stopping, two chests heaving
above a seven-league
stride—such perfect agony,
one learns to smile through,
ecstatic mimicry
being the sine qua non
of American Smooth.
And because I was distracted
by the effort of
keeping my frame
(the leftward lean, head turned
just enough to gaze out
past your ear and always
smiling, smiling),
I didn’t notice
how still you’d become until
we had done it
(for two measures?
four?)—achieved flight,
that swift and serene
magnificence,
before the earth
remembered who we were
and brought us down.
–Rita Dove
Food specials:
Whistle Pigs – hot dogs wrapped in bacon, deep fried, w/beer cheese (jalapeno, onion, sauerkraut also available as toppings): $6, or 2 for $9.
Watermelon and Feta Salad – w/lemon dressing and greens: $5/$7