Well, Canadian Thanksgiving coming up reminds us that the US version is coming soon, time to order turkey, and make sure the extra tables still pop open, and oh yeah, there’s another holiday in between involving pumpkins and candy and costumery and basically, that once Halloween hits, the rest of the year is a gummy mess of too much to do until after the New Year. In the best way, of course too much celebrating to do is not a bad thing, just remember to make time to stare out the window aimlessly from time to time, even if that means locking the door and leaving your phone elsewhere with the ringer off.
Regular menu only, no food specials this weekend, though of course we will have snacky stuff to share for the Bills game against the Rams on Monday night.
“The Embrace”
As you rest beside me, I lean over
and by your face I catch hold of sleep
the way one wick
catches hold of another wick’s flame.
There, two night lights, flicker
as fire is passed, and sleep takes hold.
But in that hold thunders
the basement furnace.
Down there a fossile nature burns,
Prehistory is ablaze, and dead
submerged peat ferments, and flares
into my radiators.
In a dark halo of heating oil
our little room is a nest warmed
by organic residues, by bonfires, by scum.
And we wicks are the two tongues
of that single Paleozoic torch.
–Valerio Magrellih
