Cibola Sleeping
The Bears never came.
Last night, charcoal gray sky
Filled with stars, more stars
Than the eastern skies allow,
Watched over me as I climbed toward
Clearing to piss into the stillness
Of cool night at 3am,
Fire burnt down to embers.
I took a deep breath,
Closed my eyes, tried to imagine
In the great emptiness, where I was,
Where I had been, where I was going still,
What I had left, what I had to go back to—
I listened for any rustling in
The 1.6 million acre darkness beyond
The woods, ancient, tall, breathing,
Looked into my tired soul,
I faded like falling stars in their stare.
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