Valhalla Twilight

from Water Seeking Light Audio Book by Christopher Robin Anderl

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lyrics

Valhalla Twilight: New Denver, B.C.

Into the blue blue dusk

fading blue mountains

with ridge after ridge

gorged deeply by white

not blue

water carving pink granite;

falling and washing smooth;

and those are the rocky bones protruding

as kneecaps and elbows

spines and scapulas

of the Mountain Jotuns,

Perhaps Ymir Himself

rest on these magnificent shores

of deeply incised ridges

fading, fading to dusk fading now

as cedar-scented torrents

streaming from the roots

of the trees

of Life

waft down, down,
to the Lake,

to the Lake

to this lake shore.

Valhalla refers to: the subrange of the Selkirk mountains; the provincial wilderness park encompassing over 7000 feet of vertical rise from the western shoreline of Slocan Lake, extending for some 20 miles; and the great mythic hall of Odin and the Norse pantheon.
Jotuns are Mountain Giants in Norse Mythology, and Ymir was the Giant from whose flesh and blood the world was created according to the ancient Norse.
They believed that an arborvitae, what we know as a cedar, was the world tree, or cosmic axis: The underworld, where the Midgard Serpent continually knaws upon it’s roots; the human realm of trunk and branch, and reaching into the sky, abode of the gods and goddesses. I thus consider them the trees of life. Those who spend any time in the forest will find it relevant and humorous that the Norse considered the tree squirrel, called Ratatusk, a messenger (actually he mostly delivered insults downward) between humans and the pantheon.