| this is the garden: colours come and go,
frail azures fluttering from night's outer wing
strong silent greens serenely lingering,
absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
this is the garden: pursed lips do blow
upon cool flutes within wide glooms, and sing
(of harps celestial to the quivering string)
invisible faces hauntingly and slow.
–e. e. cummings (1894–1962) |
Monday, July 16, 2018
197th day of the year
Autumn begins in 68 days
Will Ferrell (actor) was born on this day in 1967.
Charles W. Sweeney (pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in the last days of World War II) died on this day in 2004.
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