Torrents carrying minerals and silt, meadow grass and buffalo dung, trees and topsoil churned towards an ancient basin at the center of the continent where the rivers converged and roiled south to the Gulf.
2 Each spring for millennia, snowmelt cascaded down the Rockies in the west and the Appalachians in the east. For eight thousand years, the Misha Sipokni/Mississippi river flowed down a latticed, tree-shaped fan of water draining two-thirds of the US and parts of Canada. There should be a special word for land created by water.
What follows is a ghost story written in oil in an atlas of water and wood. Ghosts are open secrets through which hidden stories pass. The ground is all memoranda and signaturesĪnd many objects covered over with hints.
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