the fields are falling silent and the house is going quiet and the dark stealing in the cracks the back stairs creaking just the wind it makes a sighing feels like crying or like rising off the bed/ my head spins i twist the sheets the attic throwing too much heat and jodi in the bunk above i love it when she finally falls asleep i creep out into the yard and i go running up the hill check me out – hey hey hey i will, i will i tell the trees as they are bending at the knees and as i rise in their embrace my face is flushing up with blood and it is good to be so scared as i go whistling to the stars/ and as far as the eyes can see nobody ‘tween the moon and me the yard a little green square i dare you to be brave as this and kiss the night and let it take you where i been since you all fell asleep check me out – hey hey hey i love the leap i love the rise and fall and autumn breezes as the call the name that i won’t tell you ’bout because you’d shout and then you’d say i hafta tell you why and i would lie and say that grandpa told me how/ and now there is something just beyond the stream that goes beside the woods in back of suzie’s yard it’s hard to see i try and try ’cause why would they hide what i believe that they got hidden there check me out – hey hey hey my hair gets up in my face i try to trace the path i think it took but when you look it’s gone it’s been so long that i been coming out this way to stay until i’m sure it must’ve got away/ today i told sarah how to get there but i bet that she forgot it’s not the way you go it’s just the place you are the stars are bright and tonight i think we’d find it if we put our heads together check me out – hey hey hey ~peter mulvey