Stars Open in the Mountains

When the stars
  open
   you up

and the
  moon
   talks
to your eyes

here
 and there
at once

in it all
not some small
tooth in the gears
of traffic or mail

things become
both flat and warm like a blanket
and infinitey demensional

living briefly
among rocks that are sharp
but worn more than I'll ever know

Then and now

We were sound
and asleep by the time
the curtain of night
raised and let the world open back up

while the sun was busy
and away
   giving us space
to be alone
  together in the dark
I smiled

Now I am tired and busy
and the sky is bright again
but I still smile

mind full
  of then and now
happy to have moments good enough
to pull me back into them

the mountains or anywhere bare

a long way
  from home

and closer still
  to something more

what is done
 to the eyes

for the first
  seeing home
    as something away

from the us
  we were
    from the mountains that eat us
      to the lakes that feed us
         and the skies that see it all

we dance, walk, and be

home
  is safe
    home is
      the same

day after day
  work after work
    just because that is
      the way

      show you do
      just what you should

up here
  it is more about
 this is
  just
   what you do
     
part of the land your foot strikes
  not the house your money can buy

a long way from home
  we all look
   each other in the eye
 just humans and earth
 
all we really are
  sans all the culture we place higher
   for so little reward and such great cost