2023-05-28 Pentecost

【Farewell to Florida·III (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools

       Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness

       Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms

       Curled over the shadowless

2023-05-20 World Whisky Day

【Farewell to Florida·II (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot

       As if I lived in ashen ground, as if

       The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound

       From my North of cold

2023-05-15 Intl Family Day

【Farewell to Florida·I (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore,

    The snake has left its skin upon the floor.

    Key West sank downward under massive clouds

    And silvers and greens spread over

2023-05-14 Mother's Day

【Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1952)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

           Among the more irritating minor ideas

           Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home

           To C

2023-05-06 Intl No Diet Day

【Sunday Morning·VIII (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        She hears, upon that water without sound,

        A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine

        Is not the porch of spirits linger

2023-05-04 National Orange Juice Day

【Sunday Morning·VII (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Supple and turbulent, a ring of men

        Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn

        Their boisterous devotion to the sun,

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