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2025-02-01 International Pisco Sour Day
【Carnet de Voyage VIII·On an Old Guitar (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It was a simple thing For her to sit and sing, "Hey nonino!" |
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2025-01-28 Lunar New Year's Eve
【Carnet de Voyage VII·Chinese Rocket (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There, a rocket in the Wain Brings primeval night again. All the startled heavens flare From the Shepherd t |
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2025-01-26 National Green Juice Day
【Carnet de Voyage VI·Man from the Waste Evolved (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Man from the waste evolved The Cytherean glade, Imposed on battering seas His keel |
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2025-01-18 National Gourmet Coffee Day
【Carnet de Voyage V·I Am Weary of the Plum (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I am weary of the plum and of the cherry, And that buff moon in evening's aquarelle, I have no heart within to make me merry. I nod above the books of Heaven or Hell.
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2024-12-21 Winter Solstice 
【Carnet de Voyage III·Here the Grass Grows (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Here the grass grows, And the wind blows, And in the stream, &n |
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2024-12-14 Halcyon Days
【Carnet de Voyage II·One More Sunset (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The green goes from the corn, The blue from all the lakes, And the shadows of the mountains mingle in the sky.
Far off, the still bamboo &n |
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2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Comes to my fancy, slight, Tenderly spiced and gay, As if a saraph's hand Unloosed the fragrant silk |
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2024-12-14 Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day
【Infernale (1913-1914?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) (A boor of night in middle earth cries out,) Hola! Hola! What steps are those that break This curst of air?… (He pauses.) Can breath shake The solid wax from which the warmth dies out?… & |
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2024-12-14 National Screwdriver (Classic Cocktail) Day
【Dolls (1913-1914?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The thought of Eve, within me, is a doll That does what I desire, as, to perplex, With apple-buds, the husband in her sire.
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2024-12-01 National Christmas Lights Day
【Chiaroscuro (1908)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The house-fronts flare In the blown rain The ghostly street-lamps Have a pallid glare, &nb |
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2024-11-29 National Square Dancing Day
【Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks (1923)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) In the moonlight I met Berserk, In the moonlight &nb |
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2024-11-25 National Parfait Day
【Testamentum (1909?)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Plant the tea-plant on my grave, And bury with me funerary cups, Of which let one be such That young Persephone will not resist.
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2024-10-20 National Day on Writing
【The Public Square (1931)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A slash of angular blacks Like a fractured edifice That was buttressed by blue slats In a coma of the moon. &n |
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2024-10-19 National Sweetest Day
【On the Way to the Bus (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) A light snow, like frost, has fallen during the night. Gloomily, the journalist confronts
Transparent man in a translated world, In which he feeds on a new known,
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2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The disbeliever walked the moonlit place, Outside of gates of hammered serafin, Observing the moon-blotches on the walls. The yellow rocked across the stil |
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2024-10-19 International Gin and Tonic Day
【Colors·II (1909)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Lapis-lazuli and orange, and opaque green, fawn-color, black and gold… —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《色彩·之二》(1909)】 华莱士·史蒂文斯“异乡人·花环”(1879生—1955卒) 【红霞译】 &n |
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2024-10-19 National New Friends Day
【Colors·I (1909)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Pale orange, green and crimson, and white, and gold and brown. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《色彩·之一》(1909)】 华莱士·史蒂文斯“异乡人·花环”(1879生—1955卒) 【红霞译】 |
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2024-10-18 National Mashed Potato Day
【Six Significant Landscapes·IV (1916)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) When my dream was near the moon, The white folds of its gown Filled with yellow light. The soles of its feet Grew red. &nb |
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2024-10-10 National Cake Decorating Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·VI (1948)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) It is a theatre floating through the clouds, Itself a cloud, although of misted rock And mountains running like water, wave on wave, Through waves of light. It is of cloud transformed To cloud transformed again, idly, the way A season changes color to no end, Except the lavishing of itself in change, As light changes yellow into gold and gold To its opal elements and fire's delight, & |
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2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, &nb |
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2024-09-14 National Cream Filled Donut Day
【Autumn Refrain (1932)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) The skreak and skritter of evening gone And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun, The sorrows of sun, too, gone... the moon and moon, The yellow moon of words about the nightingale In measureless measures, not a bird for me But the name of a bi |
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2024-09-08 National Ampersand Day
【First Warmth (1947)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) I wonder, have I lived a skeleton's life, As a questioner about reality,
A countryman of all the bones in the world? Now, here, the warmth I had forgotten becomes &nb |
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2024-08-13 National Filet Mignon Day
【Immense and Clumsy】 Nancy Anne Miller Elephant-like, steel grey body, Immense and clumsy on Our driveway, the Waterworks
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2024-08-09 National Hand Holding Day
【Long Tale】 Nancy Anne Miller The kiskadee, with a yellow Waistcoat, is full of himself. White streaks on his face |
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2024-08-08 National Happiness Happens Day
【Pink Tangle Teezer】 Nancy Anne Miller Like a rose sun coral, nodules waft a watery aqua sky, Deep down in the semitropical ocean of her youth.
A pink floral Octocorallia with tentacles swaying |
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2024-08-08 National Pickleball Day
【Coccoloba Uvifera】 Nancy Anne Miller Like a scrotum full of seed, The cluster of bay grapes Hang down on a semitropical
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2024-08-08 International Cat Day
【Humpback Whale】 Nancy Anne Miller You need a hump to Be in tune with a curvy Ocean, to rise like one in Notre Dame's Cathedral. &nbs |
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