2024-08-13 National Filet Mignon Day
【Immense and Clumsy】
Nancy Anne Miller
Elephant-like, steel grey body,
Immense and clumsy on
Our dri
2024-05-24 International Tiara Day
【Arrival at the Waldorf (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf.
This arrival in the wild country of the soul,
All approaches gone, being completely there,
&
2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942)】
Clear water in a brilliant bowl,
Pink and white carnations. The light
2024-03-24 World Tuberculosis Day
【Secret Man (1934)】
The sounds of rain on the roof
Are like the sound of doves.
&n
2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】
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,
2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】
"Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothin
2024-01-20 Take a Walk Outdoors Day
【The Brave Man (1936)】
The sun, that brave man,
Comes through boughs that lie in wait,
That brave man.
2023-12-31 New Year's Eve
【Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936)】
That would be waving and that would be crying,
Crying and shouting and meaning farewell,
Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre,
Just to stand still withou
2023-12-28 Holy Innocents Day
【A Fading of the Sun (1933)】
Who can think of the sun costuming clouds
When all people are shaken
Or of night endazzled, proud,
2023-12-08 National Brownie Day
【Forms of the Rock in a Night-Hymn (1954)】
The rock is the gray particular of man's life,
The stone from which he rises, up - and - ho,
The step to the bleaker depths of his descents
2023-11-30 National Mousse Day
【The Poem as Icon (1954)】
It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
O
2023-11-24 Black Friday
【The World as Meditation (1952)】
J’ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. Mais l'exercice essentiel du compositeur—la méditation—rien ne l'a jamais suspendu en moi … Je vis un rêve permanent, qui ne s'arrête ni nuit ni jour.
——Georges Enesco
Is it Ulysses that approach
2023-11-23 Thanksgiving Day
【Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself (1954)】
At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a
2023-11-04 National Bison Day
【July Mountain (1955)】
We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
&nb
2023-11-04 National Candy Day
【Local Objects (1955)】
He knew that he was a spirit without a foyer
And that, in his knowledge, local objects become
More precious than the most precious objects of home:
2023-09-16 National Dance Day
【Two Letters—A Letter From (1954)】
Even if there had been a crescent moon
On every cloud-tip over the heavens,
Drenching the evening with crystals' light,
One would have wanted more—more—mo
2023-08-11 Presidential Joke Day
【The Course of a Particular (1952)】
Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind,
Yet the nothingness of winter becomes a little less.
It is still full of icy shades and shapen snow.
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