2022-05-16 National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXVIII (1937)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I am a native in this world
And think in it as a native thinks,
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2022-05-16 National Mimosa Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXVII (1937)】
It is the sea that whitens the roof.
The sea drifts through the winter air.
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2022-03-20 March Equinox
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·V (1937)】
Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,
Of the torches wisping in the underground,
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2022-03-12 National Baked Scallops Day
【The Man with the Blue Guitar·IV (1937)】
So that's life, then: things as they are?
It picks its way on the blue guitar.
2022-01-23 National Pie Day
【Peter Quince at the Clavier·III (1915)】
Soon, with a noise like tambourines,
Came her attendant Byzantines.
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2022-01-07 National Bobblehead Day
【The Snow Man (1921)】
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
2021-11-28 Red Planet Day
【Nostalgis (1972)】
Guangzhong Yu (1928—2017)
When I was young,
Nostalgia was a tiny stamp,
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2021-08-27 National Just Because Day
【The Emperor of Ice-Cream (1922)】
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
2021-08-27 International Lottery Day
【I See Children As Kites】
Erma Bombeck (1927—1996)
I see children as kites. You spend years trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you are both breathless... They crash... You patch, comfort, and assure them that someday they will fly.
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