The last, real stars.??? While the reader can relate to the claustrophobia of the city, where ???the parking lot is all there is,??? the poem sets up a simplistic dichotomy between the ???Seven-Eleven ??? our Walmart epiphanies??? and the ???lonely tundra night.??? In fact, these northern expeditions rely on modern conveniences and technologies such as GPS and Gore-Tex as much as they require a se