2025-04-26 National Pretzel Day

【Eight Significant Landscapes·V (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Wrestle with morning-glories,

            O, muscles!

            It is useless to contend

            With falling mountains.

—— • —— 

2025-04-19 Easter Eve

【Song (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            There are great things doing

            In the world,

            Little rabbit.

            There is a damsel,

2025-04-19 Holy Saturday

【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            My flowers are reflected

            In your mind

            As you are reflected in your glass.

            When you look at them,

    &n

2025-04-19 Black Saturday

【Blanche McCarthy (1915-1916?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Look in the terrible mirror of the sky

        And not in this dead glass, which can reflect

        Only the surfaces—the bending arm,

        The leaning shoulder and the searching eye.

 &nbs

2025-04-19 National Hanging Out Day

【The Silver Plough-Boy (1915)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

A black figure dances in a black field.

It seizes a sheet, from the ground, from a hush, as if spread there

    by some wash-woman for the night.

It wraps the sheet around its body, until the black figure is 

    silver.

It dances down a furrow, in the early light, back of a crazy

    plough, the green blades followi

2025-04-19 National Garlic Day

【To Madame Alda, Singing A Song, In A White Gown】

(1913-1915?)

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing.

        A few large, round leaves of wan pink

        Float in a small space of air,

        Luminously.

        A white he

2025-04-19 Bicycle Day

【The Night-Wind Of August… (1913-1915?)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The night-wind of August

        Is like an old mother to me.

        It comforts me.

        I rest in it,

        As one would rest,

        If one could,