Praise for her salty, ancient shores,
for the coyote scrambling across the frozen January ice sheet,
for winter’s sunset, and February’s whispered spring promise.
Praise for the jetty, spiraled from black basalt, and her reveal,
which we migrate to witness time and time again.
Praise for these waters that have welcomed and never questioned our desires to be in her presence.
Praise the ancestral homelands of the Goshute, Ute, Eastern Shoshone, and the Shoshone Bannock.
For we are relative newcomers in our love affair with this ancient place.

Suzy Eskenazi is a Utah-based archaeologist and writer who is honored to bear witness and listen to our lake’s ancient stories.