First, thanks to everyone who signed up our 3rd annual Golf Tournament on August 3rd, we will do our best to make it a rollicking good time, if golf is allowed to be rollicking, and to everyone who sponsored a hole. All proceeds go to the Niagara SPCA. We will have a few food specials on Friday and Saturday only this weekend, Sunday will be the regular menu. And on Saturday, guitarista and raconteur Mark Connors will join us in the Grove at 8pm!
“Blueberries”
I am in California. The moon –
colour of grandmother’s Irish butter – is lifting
over the Mount Diablo hills and the sky
is tinged a ripening strawberry. You sleep
thousands of miles from me and I pray your dreams
are a tranquil sea. Eight hours back
you watched this moon, our love-, our marriage-moon,
rise silently over our Dublin suburb, and you
phoned to tell me of it. I sit in stillness
though I am called where death is by; I am eating
night and grief in the sweet-bitter flesh
of blueberries, coating tongue and lips with juice
that this my kiss across unconscionable distances
touch to your lips with the fullness of our loving.
–John F. Deane
Food Specials (Friday and Saturday only):
Pan Bagnat Sandwich: Tuna, Anchovy, Capers, Hard Boiled Egg, Tomato, Onion, Olives, and Radishes — $11
Roasted Asparagus and Tomato Salad w/Black Garlic Vinaigrette — $5/$7