Quotation walk, from the stepping stones circling Sandburg's ashes in the garden behind the tiny house he was born in. The poet's walk, one guide told me. I feel morbid noticing the shadow of my own two legs; it brings me some pleasure. Not unlike Smith's Elegiac Sonnets full of graveyard consolation, the sort where you've got to envy the dead their bones rasping away at the bottom of the sea among the seaweed because, I realize just now--garden as cemetery, not as post-Edenic lapse--what's wrong with an underwater garden? My mind's not right.
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POOL HOURS:
Monday/Wednesday 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday/Thursday 6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.,
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Friday 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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postcard: Knox College
The Caxton Club presents a public reading by Visiting Writer Chad Simpson on Friday, April 14 at 4 p.m. in the Alumni Room. Simpson has been published in McSweeney's, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream, and Georgetown Review, among others. Recently he was the recipient of a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Cheese will be provided.
[I swear I didn't write this blurb. Cheese will be provided?]
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