this is a fact like dying is
a fact
and we spend a lot of time, money, effort
trying to circumvent
both
nothing is as uncomplicated as it seems, selective amnesia,
a remembrance folded in paper, this nostalgia for a time that
has not yet passed, this forgetting of a time that has just
now passed. |
the Sacramento River is contained by an extensive network of levees,
bypasses and weirs. much of the city of Sacramento is fifteen to
twenty feet below the
surface of the river in flood.
boats on the river
the delta swamp
it’s easy to grow complacent in the drought years, but
the river is always a river