by Tim Troll

Ak’a Tamaani, a long time ago,
the old stories say
there were giant sea creatures
lurking in these waters
they would swim from lake to lake
through sunken caverns
and rise from the depths
to take the unwary away

They came from the time
when the crust of the earth was thin
and all things could move
between the world as seen
and the world unseen

The creatures may be gone now
or maybe never were
but like the weather among these mountains
or the water filling these lakes
the wisdom of the old ones
holds warning we should take

The Wisdom of the Old Ones installation, 2014