Small Bodies of Water

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Impoundment: a body of water that is purposefully contained in an artificial enclosure; a reservoir that is created by a dam. As a result, rivers deposit these sediments at their mouth, creating a system of braided channels. These braided channels eventually form a sandy landform that can support wetland habitats. Since many tarns are filled with finely ground glacial sediment, they tend to create beautiful colors in bright sunlight. The sediment that’s suspended in the lakes often refracts the sun’s rays, providing stunning landscapes in the mountains. 43. Tide Pool creek". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC . Retrieved 18 May 2019. Chiefly Atlantic States and British...a recess or inlet in the shore of the sea. Simply put, a stream is any flowing body of water along the Earth’s surface. We often use the word “stream” to refer to smaller rivers, though this usage varies across the world.

The term channel is generally used to describe wide waterways that flow between two islands or other landmasses. Channels can also be called straits, though the term strait is usually reserved for much larger channels. In Australia, the world billabong derives from the Wiradjuri word “bilabang.” Billabong means lake in the Wiradjuri language from what is now New South Wales. The water radical 水, radical number 85 out of 214, is one of the most common in written Chinese. It forms part of thousands of characters, most of them relating to water, such as snow, river, tears, to swim, to wash, to float, to soak. And there are some that don’t directly relate, mostly verbs: to live, to exist, to concentrate, to mix, to strain. Scrolling through Pleco, the free dictionary app used by Mandarin learners everywhere, I find so many water-radical words that there could be enough for an entire language of water radicals. I begin to see it. It’s an inherited language, one I’ve carried inside me all along, one where I’m no longer perpetually caught in-between. It has no distinction between past and present tense, nor between singular and plural; as a result it contains all the places I call home, as well as all my memories and all my names. I float, I strain, I swim.Tributaries are filled with freshwater, and they supply the mainstem of the river with water as they flow toward their outlet. The majority of the world’s large rivers have dozens, if not hundreds of smaller tributaries that drain a different watershed. Most people who use the word bourne do so to refer to seasonal or intermittent streams. However, the name brook can be used for permanent flows of water.

Sometimes home is not a place but a collection of things that have fallen or been left behind: dried agapanthus pods, the exoskeletons of cicadas (tiny ghosts still clinging to the trees), the discarded shells of quail’s eggs on Po Po’s plate, cherry pips in the grass, the drowned chrysanthemum bud in the bottom of the teapot.’Almost two years later, in a different city, I was near a body of water when I received a phone call from my mother to say Po Po had died. She had caught pneumonia in the night and her small lungs could not cope. The River Thames flowed darkly beneath me, carrying pieces of the city out to sea. I stared down at the current and used the rhythm of its flow to regulate my breathing. Small Bodies of Water weaves together threads of poetic sentences, sensory detail, and acute observations to create a work that questions how trauma begets creativity – Shondaland