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Rod at
Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod
McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006,
2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.
A Thought for Today
The sounds that break the silence are the ones you never hear.
FROM the¨BOOKS
COME TO ME IN SILENCE
Come to me in silence
out of the noise of noon.
Be the eye inside of me.
Help me drink the river up
and swallow it,
or let me take great mouthfuls
out of you,
stampeding you to bed
and then beyond,
beyond.
I do not expect
that we will meet again
in the same way as before,
you freckled by the summer morning
smiling like a china cup over
blue-white
gingham.
Me blue-jeaned and apple-cheeked
a frown away from being glad.
Accept the fact that we will grow
perhaps in different ways.
Come to me in solitude
pushing through the crowd
there are no others here
to pry or make demands.
If no one waits for you
but me,
I wait in that same solitude
that brings you here.
Come to me in silence
like the land-bound stone
pushed and shoved
and finally sailed
against the gray indifferent shore.
Prophecies I have
and I am not indifferent
only gray,
full of dark midwinter questions
some that no one could know or guess.
-from “Come to Me in Silence", 1973
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