Hope everyone is getting nice and rotund today, we are closed for the holiday but will be back at it on Friday. And cheers to whoever decided to get a head start on the seasonal rush by starting their garage on fire frying a turkey on the 25th, way to beat the crowds!
The generous and well-mustached Eric Weinholtz joins us 8-11pm for some excellent music on Saturday, so come on down!
“The Feast”
Juniper and cedar in the sand.
The lake beyond, here deer-meat smoking
On a driftwood fire. And we two
Reaching each other by the wash of blue
On the warm sand together lying
As careless as water on the land.
The feast is sweet. Birds wheel round
The remnants of the food. Let us be dumb
This afternoon, not a gull’s loud Speech
Wakes these bodies from the drowsing beach;
But wake when waves hush and we have become
As two cliffs that are laboured to sand.
The water stills. In the west the gold bars
Melt. We catch our breath to see the sunset
Renew the day on the reflecting lake.
And we who gave the sand a form now take
Its substance; and, between the day and night,
Awaken in the last light like evening stars.
As the light is denied a creature speaks.
I think it is the stones that wear each other
To cold sand who put a voice in our silence,
Or else under the cliff a surf begins.
It tells of another evening, and another,
Beside lapping waters and the small lapped rocks.
The sand grows colder, the ancient body warms.
If love had not smiled we would never grieve.
But on every landscape this turning crown
Flashes and fades. We will feast on love again
In the flaming light, and rise again and leave
Our two shapes dying in each other’s arms.
–Galway Kinnell
Food Specials (Friday 6pm until gone):
TV Dinner: Salisbury Steak, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Corn, Apple Cobbler – $13
Caesar Salad – $7/$10