"The stars reveal this threadbare night,
the apogee of you from your car,
but it doesn’t feel quite right to make your return,
so you continue astray,
leaving your ears as guide.
The crickets chirp & you can almost decipher their monosyllabic words,
let go of any pretending to be at one with, to understand nature,
do as you’d done as a child: let the voices
around you spread beyond what is unknown,
the valley walls so far off nothing but bounces back "