Dennis Lake

Cutthroat trout slurp gnats on the surface 

of shoals reflecting the Telkwa Range’s

sloping shoulders, somewhere hidden 

there a remnant Caribou herd munch lichen. 

Two clouds hover above a loon’s eerie call.

Who could give language to this grandeur? 

What name could contain this sacrament? 

Difficult tasks beckon the brave.

A pioneering settler, a century ago, 

ignored first peoples, remained 

unpolluted by native tongues, beheld 

this place and thought "Dennis."

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