At the Gathering of the Stargazers, Cobar, NSW                   Once again you are driving out toward Broken Hill, leaving your melancholy and old stories behind, returning where scorpions and other feral things emerge from the reptilian night, their eye-shine luminous and wild.   At the Cobar hotel you greet your fellow stargazers gathering for a pint, willing to trek fifty kilometres further to that yearned-for place of deeper understanding, where wisdom-dispensing elders share their legendsalong a track where travel has always been difficult.   Overhead, glinting as a white dwarf in the most remote reaches of the stars, you find the…