MONDAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the Stanyan logo to subscribe to the McKuen Mailing List

Christmas Eve 2001: Photo by Edward McKuen. ©2001 Stanyan Entertainment Group

A Thought for Today

The eye is the only honest artist. 

 

Rod is in the studio today.

Rod McKuen live in New York! Click here for details.

Did you miss any of the Christmas downloads? Visit Rod's JukeBox to make sure you have the full collection.
notable birthdays Charles Addams o St. Bernadette o William Peter Blatty o Nicholas Cage o David Caruso o Katie Couric o Alvin Dark o Orval Faubus o Millard Fillmore o Vincent Gardenia o Douglas Kiker o Jim Lefebvre o Kenny Loggins o Butterfly McQueen o Terry Moore o Jean-Pierre Rampal o Paul Revere o Shirley Ross o Gary Smith o Jann Wenner o David Yost o Adloph Zukor
Rod's random thoughts Civilization recedes as fast as it advances.

Experience is only an exaggeration of that first dent of innocence.

Good conversation is as rare as promises kept.

A FIST FULL OF SNOW

 I need familiars
your bowels and brains have to be
as sure for me as both your eyes.
Passing through the sheets
and climbing down inside of you -
                            even though
you give back one for one
                 and maybe more
I sometimes wonder if I haven't
Traversed or gone climbing down a shaft
so new that none, not even me
         had charted it.

Did you take a turn that I missed?
           Did I go somewhere else ?
Was there a curve we didn't
                      go around together? Worse -
has someone else been hiking
down your highway?
Not to worry, never mind
                      change is change
unaccountable but surprising
         if you like surprises.

It's just that I had hoped
                  all our surprises
would be together - planned.

There is some silence now
like dead wood in the forest
moving only when it's prodded.

And I stand here waiting
with a fist full of snow.

-from "Come to me in Silence," 1973 & "Too Many Midnights," 1981
 
© 1973, 1981, 1990, 2002 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved
Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith o Sound & Fury Dr. Eric Yeager o Webmaster Ken Blackie
Want to comment on today's Flight Plan?
Send e-mail to Rod McKuen or post a message at the Rod McKuen Message Center
home page   today's flight plan   flight plan archives   search this site   site map
stanyan