2024-03-10 Laetare Sunday (4^th Sunday in Lent)

【Large Red Man Reading (1950)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,

As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.

They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.

There were those that returned to hear him read from the

2024-03-10 Pretzel Sunday

【Table Talk (1935)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

             Granted, we die for good.

             Life, then, is largely a thing

             Of happens to like, not should.

2024-03-10 National Skirt Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XII (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       A blue pigeon it is, that circles the blue sky,

       On sidelong wing, around and round and round.

       A white pigeon it is, that flutters to the ground,

       G

2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

       If sex were all, then every trembling hand

       Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

       But note the unconscionable treachery of fate,

    &

2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The fops of fancy in their poems leave

        Memorabilia of the mystic spouts,

        Spontaneously waterin

2024-02-25 Farewell to the God of Plague

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IX (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In verses wild with motion, full of din,

        Loudened by cries, by clashes, quick and sure

        As the deadl

2024-02-18 Thumb Appreciation Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VIII (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love,

         A ancient aspect touching a new mind.

         It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies.

2024-02-18 Pluto Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VII (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The mules that angels ride come slowly down 

        The blazing passes, from beyond the sun. 

        Descensions of their

2024-02-18 National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VI (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        If men at forty will be painting lakes

        The ephemeral blues must merge for them in one,

        The bas

2024-02-18 World Whale Day

【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-V (1918)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In the high west there burns a furious star.

        It is for fiery boys that star was set

        And for sweet-smelling virgins