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michaelboyIf I were a Simon Stevin, I might explain the rigor of the calculus involved in calculating the force on a dam and I would make Archimedes proud, to be sure.
I like to imagine a leaky gate opens fully because of the yearning to nourish what lies in the valley below. Oh, I'm sure it isn't right -- personifying a water-project control device.
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Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
In you I wrap a thousand onward years.
~ From: A Woman Waits for Me, "Children of Adam" cluster, "Leaves of Grass (1891)", Walt Whitman
I like to imagine a leaky gate opens fully because of the yearning to nourish what lies in the valley below. Oh, I'm sure it isn't right -- personifying a water-project control device.
* * *
Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
In you I wrap a thousand onward years.
~ From: A Woman Waits for Me, "Children of Adam" cluster, "Leaves of Grass (1891)", Walt Whitman
