There’s a gap in the earth. They say dragons live in these tunnels. They swoop down into the gorge to hunt. The nest is said to be deep inside past the dwarf’s old house. They saw the water that forms the falls out of the tunnel comes from the tears of all the Iroquois women the dragons have taken into the tunnel over the years. Then they came from all the slaves that tried to flee to Canada from here during the underground railroad. You know that there are dragons by the stench that comes from the tunnel. There is much that is buried that should be forgot, and much that is forgot but not buried.

11/16/16

© words and pictures Daniel DeMarle 2016