2021-12-21 December Solstice
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·X (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
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2021-12-21 Anne and Samantha Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·IX (1917)】
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
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2021-12-20 International Human Solidarity Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·VIII (1917)】
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;&nbs
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·VII (1917)】
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?&nb
2021-12-19 National Hard Candy Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·VI (1917)】
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
2021-12-16 Day of the Vow
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·V (1917)】
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
&nbs
2021-12-16 National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·IV (1917)】
A man and a woman
Are one.
2021-12-15 Bill of Rights Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·III (1917)】
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
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2021-12-15 National Cupcake Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·II (1917)】
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
2021-12-15 National Wear Your Pearls Day
【Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird·I (1917)】
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
2021-12-14 National Bouillabaisse Day
【A Clear Day And No Memories (1954)】
No soldiers in the scenery,
No thoughts of people now dead,
2021-12-04 National Sock Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·VIII (1916)】
Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
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2021-12-04 Santa's List Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·VI (1916)】
Not all the knives of the lamp-posts,
Nor the chisels of the long streets,
Nor
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