2023-11-24 Black Friday
【The World as Meditation (1952)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
J’ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. Mais l'exercice essentiel du compositeur—la méditation—rien ne l'a jamais suspendu en moi … Je vis un rêve permanent, qui ne s'arrête ni nuit ni jour.
——Georges Enesco
Is it Ulysses that approach
2023-11-23 Thanksgiving Day
【Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself (1954)】
At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a
2023-11-18 National Vichyssoise Day
【The Plain Sense of Things (1952)】
After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to the end of
2023-11-18 Apple Cider Day
【The Irish Cliffs of Moher (1952)】
Who is my father in this world, in this house,
At the spirit's base?
My father's father, his father's father, his--
2023-11-04 National Play Outside Day
【An Old Man Asleep (1952)】
The two worlds are asleep, are sleeping, now.
A dumb sense possesses them in a kind of solemnity.
The self and the earth — your thoughts, your feelings,
&n
2023-11-04 National Chicken Lady Day
【A Mythology Reflects Its Region (1955)】
A mythology reflects its region. Here
In Connecticut, we never lived in a time
When mythology was
2023-11-04 National Bison Day
【July Mountain (1955)】
We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
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2023-11-04 National Candy Day
【Local Objects (1955)】
He knew that he was a spirit without a foyer
And that, in his knowledge, local objects become
More precious than the most precious objects of home:
2023-10-23 9th Day of the 9th Lunar Month
【Solitaire under the Oaks (1955)】
In the oblivion of cards
One exists among pure principles.
Neither the cards nor the trees nor
2023-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Reality is an activity of the most august imagination (1954)】
Last Friday, in the big light of last Friday night,
We drove home from Cornwall to Hartford, late.
It was not a night blown at a glasswor
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