Slowness

Miles of highway poppies

A stretch of maybe flowers past Signal Hill away

We were parked and searching

For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thornAlthough we couldn't see a thing that night

And the stars in their slowness

And their slowness took us by surpriseIf I never told you how you helped to rescue

The car and all inside

Remember roads were steep and

You and I went sliding down the grade from Gate's PassYou asleep and me behind the wheel

Hovering in, in that slowness

And that slowness has never gone awayAlthough we couldn't see a thing that night

And the stars still shone and the stars still shone

And the stars still shoneIn their slowness, in their slowness

In their slowness, in their slowness

And their slowness has never gone away