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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 supply of love
will never exceed the demand, but it should.
FROM the¨BOOKS
SUPPER
All hills and gullies
mounds and little mountains
you rise up early
in the night.
In dreams so real
that sleep and waking
meet, dissolve and blur.
A sacrament you are
made of salt
and tasting not unlike
cinnamon or soda water
as I pull you to me.
A meal you are.
A meal you make of me.
We devour
one the other
as though we were
some hungry giants
having fasted
all the winter
hungry now for spring.
I see no end
to this stored-up appetite
this
emptiness
that only loving
up and down a lifetime
will fill up.
I have wished too much
or just enough
to bring you here
almost to the final step.
One meter gone
or one mile away
you are
just out of reach
or too near
to make perspective work.
- from "Hand in
Hand," 1977
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