THE FLOW OF WATER UNDER US. There was a lot of flooding near us in Connecticut in the last couple weeks. I remarked to a neighbor that it seemed strange that there would be so much flooding in an area called “Noroton Heights.” The area is about a mile from the Long Island Sound, and there is a somewhat steep drop from the Heights to the Sound. My friend said that there are a lot of underground springs in the area. There are only are only a few brooks in the area, so there must be water moving underground to the Sound. I tend to forget that water must be moving underground, either through porous rock or in underground channels (like the Minetta Brook or Minetta River in Greenwich Village) until the occasions when it appears above ground.
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I love the title of this post; it’s so lyrical. Did you take it from a poem that I should know? I also love learning this about my hometown. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you. No, the poem I love about Connecticut is “The River of Rivers in Connecticut” by Wallace Stevens.
Speaking of lyrical, I can’t let this opportunity to quote “Once In a Lifetime” by the Talking Heads go to waste:
Letting the days go by / let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by / water flowing underground
Into the blue again / in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones / there is water underground.
Letting the days go by / let the water hold me down
I think Brian Eno wrote the chorus. It certainly sounds like him.
Lee, wonderfully apt. I wish I could say that I was thinking of the song, but I don’t know it.