Slowness

Miles of highway poppies, a stretch of maybe flowers

Past Signal Hill a ways

We were parked and searching

For a hubcap rolling into the fields of thorn

Although we couldn't see a thing that night

Stars still shone

In their slowness

And their slowness

Took us by surprise

If 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 Pass

You asleep and me behind the wheel hovering

In that slowness

And that slowness

Has never gone away