water flows downhill

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

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