Windhover

If you are feeling wrath- or resent-ful, here's a good place to clear your head. I used to bike past it last summer, before it opened, but Friday I went in and sat there for a while. Outside there is a reproduction of the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, which I walked around, cheating a little.

Nathan Oliveira is the painter of the Center's canvases, which were inspired by Hopkins' poem, which we all learned in secondary school, in my case, Grade 11 or 12, with Miss Bedford-Jones, who was the headmistress and whose 12th grade English classes were something to look forward to during all the earlier years:

I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-

  dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

  Of the rolling level underneath him steady air. . .