I was taken aback, a little, at first, seeing a big disturbance in the grey veil around me,
at my misty mountain Rockytop meditative ledge. Was it Valkerie bringing more friends?
No, just more hummingbirds than usual coming to drop nectar on my tongue.
I'm going to have to retreat to my lakeshore score, until it becomes too much about the perch,
not my pedestrian pedestal.
Looking up Lake Erie, where you can't see the other side, standing in a large striation that leads into the water,
seeing the acid coloured lichens and mosses and the failed remains of old migrations, with all the old fossils,
is a ten thousand year view. May one day, it comes to you, to be there, and be that aware, bare but not naked.
Jimi Hendrix sang about "the echoes of glaciers from long ago".
I now know what he means, even if it's not Haida or Skeena oral tradition informing me.