2022-08-20 National Radio Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·VI (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade,
And you, and you, bethou me as you blow,
2022-08-20 Harmony Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·V (1942)】
On a blue island in a sky-wide water
The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear,
Long after the planter's death. A few limes remained,
2022-08-20 World Mosquito Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·IV (1942)】
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imagined
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2022-08-14 Victory-over-Japan Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·III (1942)】
The great statue of the General Du Puy
Rested immobile, though neighboring catafalques
Bore off the residents of its noble Pla
2022-08-14 Vigil of Assumption
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·II (1942)】
The President ordains the bee to be
Immortal. The President ordains. But does
The body l
2022-07-30 International Friendship Day
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Chang·I (1942)】
The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets
Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves
Rose up like phantoms from chrono
【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Be Abstract·X (1942)】
The major abstraction is the idea of man
And major man is its exponent, abler
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