2026-11-02 Job Action Day

【Banal Sojourn (1919)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.

The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.

The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.

Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.

Pardie! summe

2026-11-01 World Vegan Day

【Ballade of the Pink Parasol (1900)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        I pray thee, where is the old-time wig.

        And where is the lofty hat?

        Where is the maid on the road in her gig.

&nb

2026-10-31 Halloween

【Autumn (1898)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Long lines of coral light

            And evening star,

            One shade that leads th

2026-10-30 National Breadstick Day

【The Apostrophe to Vincentine-IV (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            And what I knew you felt

            Came then.

          &nbs

2026-10-29 National Internet Day

【The Apostrophe to Vincentine-III (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

                Then you came walking,

                In a group

   &

2026-10-28 National Chocolate Day

【The Apostrophe to Vincentine-II (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

             I saw you then, as warm as flesh,

             Brunette,

       &nb

2026-10-27 National Black Cat Day

【The Apostrophe to Vincentine-I (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

             I figured you as nude between

             Monotonous earth and dark blue sky.

2026-10-26 National Pumpkin Day

【Anecdote of Canna (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Huge are the canna in the dreams of

        X, the mighty thought, the mighty man.

        They fill the terrace of his capitol.

2026-10-25 World Pasta Day

【For an Old Woman in a Wig-III (1915-1916?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        When summer ends and changing autumn mellows

        The nights … and moons glance

        Over the dreamers … and brin

2026-10-24 United Nations Day

【For an Old Woman in a Wig-II (1915-1916?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Is death in hell more death than death in heaven?

        And is there never in that noon a turning——

        One step

2026-10-23 Global Champagne Day

【For an Old Woman in a Wig-I (1915-1916?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        … There is a moment's flitter

        Of silvers and of blacks across the streaking.

        … a swarming chitte

2026-10-22 National Nut Day

【Tradition (1945)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        It has a clear, a single, a solid form,

        That of a son who bears upon his back

        The father that he loves, and bears him from

 &

2026-10-21 National Apple Day

【The Anecdote of Men by the Thousands (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The soul, he said, is composed

        Of the external world.

        There are men of the East, he said,

2026-10-20 World Osteoporosis Day

【The Worms at Heaven's Gate (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Out of the tomb, we bring Badroulbadour,

        Within our bellies, we her chariot.

        Here is an eye. And here

2026-10-19 National New Friends Day

【The Motive for Metaphor (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        You like it under the trees in autumn,

        Because everything is half dead.

        The wind moves like a cripple among

2026-10-18 Double Ninth Festival

【Dry Loaf (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        It is equal to living in a tragic land

        To live in a tragic time.

        Regard now the sloping, the mountainous rocks

  &nb

2026-10-17 National Pasta Day

【Saturday Night at the Chiropodist's (1922?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The body walks and is related to the floor,

        As the soul is related to the ceiling,

        Or to what is

2026-10-16 National Mammography Day

【The Well Dressed Man With a Beard (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        After the final no there comes a yes

        And on that yes the future world depends.

        No was the night.

2026-10-15

【Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Some things, niño, some things are like this,

        That instantly and in themselves they are gay

        And you and I are

2026-10-14 National Dessert Day

【The Greenest Continent-VIII (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Fatal Ananke is the common god.

        He looks upon the statue, where it is,

        And the sun and the sun-reek piled a

2026-10-13 International Day for Failure

【The Greenest Continent-VII (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The diplomats of the cafés expound:

        Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

        It was a mistake to

2026-10-12 National Pulled Pork Day

【The Greenest Continent-VI (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    But could the statue stand in Africa?

    The marble was imagined in the cold.

    Its edges were taken from tumultuous wind

    That beat out slimmest edges in the e

2026-10-11 National Sausage Pizza Day

【The Greenest Continent-V (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Forth from their tabernacles once again

        The angels come, armed, gloriously to slay

        The black and ruin hi

2026-10-10 National Chess Day

【The Greenest Continent-IV (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    That was never the heaven of Africa, which has 

    No heaven, had death without a heaven, death

    In a heaven of death. Beneath the heavy foils,

    Beneath the spa

2026-10-09 World Egg Day

【The Greenest Continent-III (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            There was heaven once,

    But not that Salzburg of the skies. It was

    The spirit's episcopate, hallowed and high,

    To

2026-10-08 World Sight Day

【The Greenest Continent-II (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The heaven of Europe is empty, like a Schloss

        Abandoned because of taxes … It was enough:

        It made up for everythin

2026-10-07 National Frappe Day

【The Greenest Continent-I (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Large-leaved and many-footed shadowing,

        What god rules over Africa, what shape,

        What avuncular cloud-man beamie

2026-10-06 National Noodle Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-VII (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Dance, now, and with sharp voices cry, but cry

    Like damsels daubed and let your feet be bare

    To touch the grass and, as you circle, turn

    Your backs upon

2026-10-05 World Architecture Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-VI (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Mesdames, it is not enough to be reconciled

    Before the strange, having wept and having thought

    And having said farewell. It is not enough

    That the vist

2026-10-04 National Cinnamon Roll Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-V (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    A solemn voice, not Mr. Burnshaw's, says:

    At some gigantic, solitary urn,

    A trash can at the end of the world, the dead

    Give up dead things and

2026-10-03 National Techies Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-IV (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Mesdames, one might believe that Shelley lies

        Less in the stars than in their earthy wake,

        Since the rad

2026-10-02 World Smile Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-III (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

                                The stones

That will replace it [the statue] shall be carve

2026-10-01 International Coffee Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-II (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

                Come, all celestial paramours,

        Whether in-dwelling haughty clouds, Frigid

    &n

2026-09-30 Orange Shirt Day

【Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue-I (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The thing is dead … Everything is dead

        Except the future. Always everything

        That is dead except what ought to

2026-09-29 National Coffee Day

【The Old Woman and the Statue-V (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Without her, evening like a budding yew

    Would soon be brilliant, as it was, before

    The harridan self and ever-maladive fate

    Went crying their desolate syllable

2026-09-28 National Good Neighbor Day

【The Old Woman and the Statue-IV (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The mass of stone collapsed to marble hulk,

        Stood stiffly, as if the black of what she thought

        Co

2026-09-27 World Rivers Day

【The Old Woman and the Statue-III (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        But her he had not forseen: the bitter mind

        In a flapping cloak. She walked along the paths

        Of the park wi

2026-09-26 National Hunting and Fishing Day

【The Old Woman and the Statue-II (1936)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        So much the sculptor had forseen: autumn,

        The sky above the plaza widening

        Before the horse

2026-09-24 World Maritime Day

【A Room on a Garden (1935?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            O stagnant east-wind, palsied mare,

            Giddap! The ruby roses' hair

2026-09-23 National Apple Cider Vinegar Day

【Lytton Strachey, Also, Enters into Heaven (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        I care for neither fugues nor feathers.

        What interests me most is the people

        Who

2026-09-22 World Car Free Day

【Agenda (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Whipped creams and the Blue Danube,

        The lin-lan-lone of Babson,

        and yet the dammed thing doesn't come right.

2026-09-21 National Chai Day

【Polo Ponies Practicing (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

           The constant cry against an old order,

           An order constantly old,

           Is itself ol

2026-09-20 National Brunch Day

【The Drum-Majors in the Labor Day Parade (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            If each of them wasn't a prig

            And didn't care a fig,

2026-09-19 National Dance Day

【Hieroglyphica (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        People that live in the biggest houses

        Often have the worst breaths.

        Hey-di-ho.

       &n

2026-09-18 National Cheeseburger Day

【What They Call Red Cherry Pie (1934)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Meyer is a bum. He eats his pie.

        He eats red cherry pie and never says—

        He makes no choice of words

2026-09-17 International Country Music Day

【The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard-III (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The choice twixt dove and goose is over-close.

        The fowl of Venus may consist of both

       &

2026-09-16 National Guacamole Day

【The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard-II (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        That tragic prattle of the fates, astute

        To bring destruction, often seems high-pitched

        Th

2026-09-15 Get Ready Day

【The Woman Who Blamed Life on a Spaniard-I (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        You do not understand her evil mood.

        You think that like the moon she is obscured

        But clears and cle

2026-09-14 National Sober Day

【Good Man, Bad Woman (1932)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        You say that spite avails her nothing, that

        You rest intact in conscience and intact

        In self, a man of longer time th

2026-09-13 Supernatural Day

【Annual Gaiety (1930)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         In the morning in the blue snow

         The catholic sun, its majesty,

         Pinks and pinks the ice-hard melancholy.

&nbs

2026-09-12 National Video Games Day

【Metropolitan Melancholy (1928)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         A purple woman with a lavender tongue

         Said hic, said hac,

         Said ha.

2026-09-11 Bravehearts Day

【Red Loves Kit-III (1924)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Rest, crows, upon the edges of the moon,

        Cover the golden altar deepest black,

        Fly upward thick in numbers, fly across

&nbs

2026-09-09 National Teddy Bear Day

【Red Loves Kit-I (1924)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Your yes her no, your no her yes. The words

        Make little difference, for being wrong

        And wronging her, if only as she thin

2026-09-08 Star Trek Day

【The Shape of the Coroner (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            It was the morn

            And the palms were waved

            And

2026-09-06 National Read a Book Day

【Histoire (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        For simple pleasure, he beheld,

        The rotting man for pleasure saw,

        The new spring tumble in the sky.