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Rod in “The Best is Yet to Come” 11/6/04
Photo by Shira Greenburg ©2004 by Broadway.com. Used by Permission
A Thought for Today
In friendship, silence is as important as
words.
NOV. 2004 STANYAN HOUSE BEST SELLERS
BOOKS
1. Tie: Rusting in the Rain (Reg. & Boxed, signed, edition)
2. A Safe Place to Land (Boxed Complete Book with 2 CD's)
3. . . . .and autumn came (Boxed, signed & numbered edition)
4. McKuen at Carnegie Hall (songbook
5. Beyond the Boardwalk (Boxed, signed & numbered edition)
6. McKuen: New Carols for Christmas (songbook)
7. A Man Alone: Sinatra sings McKuen (songbook)
8. The Power Bright & Shinning
9. Suspension Bridge
10 Through European Windows (songbook)
CD'S / CASSETTES & LP's / VIDEO
1. In Search of Eros+/Beatsville+/Listen to the Warm (3 CD Set)
2. Listen to the Warm (CD)
3. In Search of Eros (CD includes Yellow Unicorn 7 More & Fonts)
4. Tie: Pastorale (Double LP) / Concerto #2 for Guitar & Orch. (LP
5. Rod & Dusty Springfield Christmas Video (Video only/No DVD)
6. McKuen: New Carols for Christmas (CD HandMade Series)
7. A Man Alone / Frank Sinatra (Deluxe Gatefold LP)
8. The Platinum Collection (2 Cassette Set)
9. Beatsville+ (CD Includes additional material & Font Sets)
10. McKuen: Piano Concerto #3 (LP)
AND KEEP IN MIND:
McKuen Holiday Cards
LONDON PALLADIUM POSTER
McKuen Prime of Y0ur Life T Shirt
Corky Hale: Harp the Herald Angels Swing! (CD)
McKuen: The Plains of my Country / Seascapes (LP)
McKuen: Symphony #1 (LP)
FROM the¨BOOKS
Two Poems from The Sound of Solitude
SONATA / September 28
Summer solstice like a wand
makes magic or dispenses dreams,
in shaping wind and age
it does not choose the easy-out.
Some lost summer rage within
and will not let the Autumn start,
but those found easy to the touch
stay summerbound in memory,
and more -
they set the standard
for all summers yet to come.
So it will be with sun days ahead,
in backyards safe or unfamiliar clime -
each will be held up, measured by
this one now going, gone.
In a season yet ahead
some lark will raid the memory
and find that summer
hidden, not too well,
that has our names bound into it.
A schoolboy's penknife thrust
that leads initials to a limb
and carves out immortality.
DOWN UNDER
As often as I've lain beneath
the Southern sun in late November,.
I still cannot accept it as a summer month.
Bare bellies at the beach,
brown shoulders in the city square
conspire with pale-cheeked women,
young men in Speedo's
sprinting through the sand,
and Sydney smiles of every kind
to beat me down into believing
that seasons can be changed by winks
Oh you summer coming in
(that I am just now learning)
reach out and help me if you can.
Consider all the summers I befriended.
And now consider, if you will
befriending me.
-from "The Sound of Solitude," 1983
I’ll be back on Monday with a new edition of
Ask Rod and news of a special Stanyan House Christmas Sale, meanwhile
have a safe weekend and sleep warm.
RM 12/3/2004 12:14AM PST
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