Arcadia Books – Spring Green

Arcadia Books – Spring Green

When Arcadia Books opened its doors in downtown Spring Green this past May, owner James Bohnen found himself realizing the dream he’s had since his twenties. A director at the nearby American Players Theater since 1996, Bohnen bought the 140-year-old building about...
Arcadia Books – Spring Green

Glazier of My Heart

Teach me again how to hold glass. I have forgotten the gentle touch of your words. Remind me how glass is like a river, how to slide the cutter along the line we’ve made together, having measured twice. Hold my hand pressing teach me how to hold how hard to...
Arcadia Books – Spring Green

WINDOW – WINDOW, OUR LADY

WINDOW To win. To do. To undo. To Endow. To bow. To wind down. To want tobe like the wind. To hold or stop the wind. To be made of glass; to shatter one Sundaymorning. To hold all, as in: He wished to see fall and all through the morningwindow, but morning decided to...
Arcadia Books – Spring Green

I Am Here to Make Friends

however mother the morning always from the mind, how every glamour misrecords the ripening with munitions, first to do the work of others, however our colleagues arpeggiate the palace we have always loved into hexagons or filaments or excesses of nurture and...
Arcadia Books – Spring Green

Poem in Advance of Witty Repartee

with kelly it is estuary, almost a carmen sandiego kindof wariness, cloistered if not unrelenting, a heat that hardens to the point of the spear. one could almost agree to the ural mountains or douse one’s own blueberry eyes with methyl iodide in hope for the ripest...