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:
&
2025-05-16 National Barbecue Day
【4 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
The horses gnaw the bark from the trees.
The horses are hollow,
The trunks of the trees are hollow.
Why do th
2025-05-15 National Aperitif Day
【3 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
The blunt ice flows down the Mississippi,
At night.
In the morning, the clear river
Is full of reflections,
Beautiful allitera
2025-05-15 Bring Flowers To Someone Day
【1 of 9 Primordia in the Northwest (1917)】
All over Minnesota,
Cerise sopranos,
Walking in the snow,
2025-05-10 National Windmill Day
【Inscription for a Monument (1916)】
To the imagined lives
Evoked by music,
Creatures of horns, flutes, drums,
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2025-05-10 World Fair Trade Day
【Eight Significant Landscapes·VII (1916)】
Crenellations of mountains
Cut like strummed zithers;
2025-04-19 Holy Saturday
【The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches (1916)】
My flowers are reflected
In your mind
As yo
2025-03-29 World Piano Day
【I Have Lived So Long With The Rhetoricians】
(1913-1915?)
I have lived so long with the rhetoricians
That when I see a pine tree
Broken by lightning
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2025-03-15 National Brutus Day
【L'Essor Saccadé (1913-1915?)】
Swallows in the elderberry,
Fly to the steeple.
2025-02-22 National Margarita Day
【Phases·VI (1914)】
[First Part Missing]
The crisp, sonorous epics
Mong
2025-01-18 National Gourmet Coffee Day
【Carnet de Voyage V·I Am Weary of the Plum (1914)】
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
2024-12-24 Vigil of the Nativity
【Carnet de Voyage IV·She That Winked Her Sandal Fan (1914)】
She that winked her sandal fan
Long ago in gray Japan-
2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】
Comes to my fancy, slight,
Tenderly spiced and gay,
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2024-12-01 National Christmas Lights Day
【Chiaroscuro (1908)】
The house-fronts flare
In the blown rain
The ghostly street-lamps
2024-11-29 National Square Dancing Day
【Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks (1923)】
In the moonlight
I met Berserk,
2024-11-25 National Parfait Day
【Testamentum (1909?)】
Plant the tea-plant on my grave,
And bury with me funerary cups,
2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】
The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,
Outside of gates of hammered serafin,
Observing the moon-blotches on t
2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave bui
2024-09-14 National Cream Filled Donut Day
【Autumn Refrain (1932)】
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 m
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