2024-02-18 The First Sunday of Lent

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IV (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         This luscious and impeccable fruit of life

         Falls, it appears, of its own weight to earth.

         When you were Eve, its acrid juice was sweet,

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2024-02-18 National Battery Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-III (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese

        Sat tittivating by their mountain pools

        Or in the Yangtse studied

2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         A red bird flies across the golden floor.

         It is a red bird that seeks out his choir

         Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing.

2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        "Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,

        O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,

        There is not nothin

2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day

【Gray Room (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Although you sit in a room that is gray,

    Except for the silver

    Of the straw-paper,

    And pick

    At your pale white gown;

    Or lift one

2024-02-13 Lunar Goat Bliss Day

【On the Manner of Addressing Clouds (1921)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,

        Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,

        Eliciting the still susta

2024-02-10 Lunar New Year

【Theory (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            I am what is around me.

            Women understand this.

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2024-02-07 National Girls and Women in Sports Day

【Human Arrangement (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain

        And bound by a sound which does not change,

2024-02-02 Groundhog Day

【Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    Oh, that this lashing wind was something more

    Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …

    The rain is pouring down. It is July.

    There is

2024-01-28 Natl Daisy Day

【The Beginning (1947)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    So summer comes in the end to these few stains

    And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.

    The house is empty. But here is where she sat

    To