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Rod on Maui, August 2003.
Photo by John Scoggins.
©2003 by Stanyan Entertainment.
A Thought for Today
Making peace with an
enemy has more than once rendered him helpless.
Forty / Forty
Your dress is riding now
up above your knees.
Your thighs
are round and growing
as we settle on the common
my eyes go on avoiding yours,
they move along your body
settling now upon the top part
of your legs
uncovered
out of their safe envelope
like a party invitation.
My eyes
now dart from you.
They try to find
a butterfly
a fly ball or an ocean.
Anything.
The park is sunny,
pigeon territory.
Can't we move
back up the stairs
where comfort is the main
concern ?
You know the sun
hangs lower by the minute
its only thought in mind
to give you one more
headache.
I'll run
and get an aspirin
the tallest glass
of water.
Come with me
both of us have had
the sun,
our share of stale air
awaits within.
I'd rather live
and go on living
by pulling deep
into my lungs
the air you breathe
than depend on the wind
from open windows.
No window opens
on a better world
than what we have
within each other's arms.
- from "Coming Close
to the Earth", 1978
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