2022-06-28 the Stonewall Uprising of 1969
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction——To Henry Church (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
And for what, except for you, do I feel love?
Do I press the extremest book of the wisest man
Close to me, hidden in me day and night?
In the uncertain light of single, certain truth,
&n
2022-06-19 Father's Day/Juneteenth Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXXIII (1937)】
That generation's dream, aviled
In the mud, in Monday's dirty light,
&nbs
2022-04-15 Good Friday——2022-06-17 Juneteenth Weekend
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXXII (1937)】
Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the ro
2022-06-05 World Environment Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXXI (1937)】
How long and late the pheasant sleeps …
The employer and employee contend,
Combat, compose their droll affair.
The bubbling sun will bubble up,
2022-05-28 Memorial Weekend
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXX (1937)】
From this I shall evolve a man.
This is his essence: the old fantoche
Hanging his shawl upon the wind,
Like something on the stage, puffed out,
 
2022-05-16 National Love A Tree Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXIX (1937)】
In the cathedral, I sat there, and read,
Alone, a lean Review and said,
"These degustations in the vaults
Oppose the past and the festival.