EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 4 MIN
The trees keep silence
from FRED STZ MUSIC · host FRED STZ
Night is my refuge, my quiet city in the middle of the forest where the trees keep silence like a precious space — a hoard of moss and shadow no daylight dares to plunder. No clamour of trams, no barroom shouts, only the slow breath of pines and the soft footfall of owls. Here, far from the tapage of human mouths, I find a freedom that unfastens me. The night embraces my inner reality like a damp coat that fits after years of wrong shoulders. I am always well in the night. Always without fear. Fear is a mongrel that sleeps by noon; at night it dreams of nothing, its paws twitching at twigs, and I step over it into my own kingdom. Solitude: I hold it like a miser holds a counterfeit florin — worthless to the world, but to me it shines. It is the only coin that buys the unspeakable. And there are nights of the other body. Nights of love, of the low grammar of skin, the tongue that speaks no language but presses its vowels into the hollow of a throat. Sensuality: a dull, lascivious moving, like two trees grafting in the dark, their bark whispering the same root. Dialogue without words — each pore a syllable, each breath a half-rhyme. We become blind musicians playing the same damp instrument, and the music is delicious, a fruit split open at midnight, its juice running down the wrist. And then the nights alone. Ah, the alone nights. The crucible. The furnace where creation sweats its first awkward shape. My city sleeps around me, but the trees do not sleep; they keep silence as a precious space — they guard my window with their thousand ears. Here everything is possible. I am a crowd that fits inside a single skin. Like Pessoa, I have many names, but the night does not ask me to choose. It spreads before me like a carpenter's bench: here a sonnet, there a symphony, here a door that opens into a forest path I have never walked but whose roots remember my step from a dream I had before I was born. No terror in this dark. Only the gentle creak of the invisible loom. I lie still, and the night lies still beside me, warm as a cat that has chosen its human. The trees keep silence — not an empty silence, but a full one, a vessel of moss and starlight. And I think: morning is a tyrant I do not serve. But night — night is the homeland I never knew I had. And in my forest city, I am its happy ghost.
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Night is my refuge, my quiet city in the middle of the forest where the trees keep silence like a precious space — a hoard of moss and shadow no daylight dares to plunder. No clamour of trams, no barroom shouts, only the slow breath of pines and the soft footfall of owls. Here, far from the tapage of human mouths, I find a freedom that unfastens me. The night embraces my inner reality like a damp coat that fits after years of wrong shoulders. I am always well in the night. Always without fear. Fear is a mongrel that sleeps by noon; at night it dreams of nothing, its paws twitching at twigs, and I step over it into my own kingdom. Solitude: I hold it like a miser holds a counterfeit florin — worthless to the world, but to me it shines. It is the only coin that buys the unspeakable. And there are nights of the other body. Nights of love, of the low grammar of skin, the tongue that speaks no language but presses its vowels into the hollow of a throat. Sensuality: a dull, lascivious moving, like two trees grafting in the dark, their bark whispering the same root. Dialogue without words — each pore a syllable, each breath a half-rhyme. We become blind musicians playing the same damp instrument, and the music is delicious, a fruit split open at midnight, its juice running down the wrist. And then the nights alone. Ah, the alone nights. The crucible. The furnace where creation sweats its first awkward shape. My city sleeps around me, but the trees do not sleep; they keep silence as a precious space — they guard my window with their thousand ears. Here everything is possible. I am a crowd that fits inside a single skin. Like Pessoa, I have many names, but the night does not ask me to choose. It spreads before me like a carpenter's bench: here a sonnet, there a symphony, here a door that opens into a forest path I have never walked but whose roots remember my step from a dream I had before I was born. No terror in this dark. Only the gentle creak of the invisible loom. I lie still, and the night lies still beside me, warm as a cat that has chosen its human. The trees keep silence — not an empty silence, but a full one, a vessel of moss and starlight. And I think: morning is a tyrant I do not serve. But night — night is the homeland I never knew I had. And in my forest city, I am its happy ghost.
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