it lies there at one time it was smaller and weaker if you had walked on it's back in it's youth it would have opened up and swallowed you whole Now that it has grown bigger and stronger it is now safer to travel across it's back still you know you must not wake it as you stride across it's back you see the footprints of people and the tracks of animals who have walked this way before and you feel even safer as you walk then you stop you hear a low growl a deep thumping so deep you can't hear it with your ears the sound travels up through your feet it is the giant stretching in the noonday sun just as a cat would it stretches pushes against itself it still sleeps you see the crack in the ice of the lake on which you stand © Todd R James 2001 - all rights reserved.

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