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rita wong
cindy mochizuki
2015
Copyright © Rita Wong and Cindy Mochizuki, 2015
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Cover & interior illustrations: Cindy Mochizuki
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dedicated to the health of your
spirited waters, dear readers
for all readers, big and small
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“The water owns itself,” as Lee says
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Terry Point walks us along Musqueam Creek,
Vancouver’s only remaining wild salmon stream.
Although most of Vancouver’s original salmon streams have been piped into sewers, one wild salmon stream remains.
Musqueam Creek still sees a few wild salmon return, miraculously, navigating the obstacles and pollution that the newcomers have put in their way.
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Creek lovers in Saltwater City (what the Chinese called Vancouver) also hear the call of the water.
Each day when I bike past
the buried stream
I hear it gurgling its
longing to return to
daylight & moonlight
to nurture ducks
& bracken ferns &
salmonberry & people.
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In the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, people try to reconnect to the buried creeks.
T Statlw, also known as the St. George Rainway, has brought them together.
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Water has two kinds of molecular bonds holding its atoms together. Peter War-shall describes these as stable covalent
bonds
