2025-05-16 National Bike to Work Day

【6 of 9 Primordia in the South (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Unctuous furrows,

        The ploughman portrays in you 

        The spring about him:

        Compilation of the effects

        Of magenta blooming in the Judas-tree

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2025-05-16 National Endangered Species Day

【5 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The birch trees draw up whiteness from the ground.

        In the swamps, bushes draw up dark red,

        Or yellow.

        O, boatman,

        What are you drawing from the ra

2025-05-16 National Barbecue Day

【4 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         The horses gnaw the bark from the trees.

         The horses are hollow,

         The trunks of the trees are hollow.

         Why do the horses have eyes and ears?

         The trees do not.

         Why can the horses move about on the

2025-05-15 National Aperitif Day

【3 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    The blunt ice flows down the Mississippi,

    At night.

    In the morning, the clear river

    Is full of reflections,

    Beautiful alliterations of shadows and of things shadowed.

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【《原初之三·西北部》(1917)】

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2025-05-15 National Chocolate Chip Day

【2 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

    The child's hair is of the color of the hay in the haystack,

         around which the four black horses stand.

    There is the same color in the bellies of frogs, in clays,

         withered reeds, skins, wood, sunlight.

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2025-05-15 Bring Flowers To Someone Day

【1 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        All over Minnesota,

        Cerise sopranos,

        Walking in the snow,

        Answer, humming,

        The male voice of the wind in the dry leaves

2025-05-10 National Train Day

【Bowl (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        For what emperor

        Was this bowl of Earth designed?

        Here are more things

        Than on any bowl of the Sungs,

        Even the rarest—

        Vines that take 

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2025-05-10 National Windmill Day

【Inscription for a Monument (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        To the imagined lives

        Evoked by music,

        Creatures of horns, flutes, drums,

        Violins, bassoons, cymbals—

        Nude porters that glistened in Burma

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2025-05-10 World Fair Trade Day

【Eight Significant Landscapes·VII (1916)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Crenellations of mountains

            Cut like strummed zithers;

            But dead trees do not resemble

            Beaten drums.

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