WATER

             WATER

Water-
     drop, splash, trickle, dash
     torrent, stream, creek, meander
     turbid, clear, precious, dear
                                               water

Water-
     river, stream
     ocean lake
     pond, marsh
     gulf, bay
     fountain, fall
     channel, quay
     oasis, sluice
     salt, fresh
     stagnate or use
                                            water

Water-
     hydrogen, oxygen, hydrogen
          hydrogen, hydrogen
                oxygen
                                      is water

Water-
     bathing, cleaning
     cooking, steaming
     cooling, quenching
     boiling, blanching
                                          water

Water-
     vapor, dew
     mist, rain
     hail, sleet
     ice, snow
     freeze, thaw
     sizzle, drizzle
                                         water

Water
     fished, squished
     polluted, drained
     eutrophic, stained
     chemically maimed
                                        water

Water
     saline, pure
     limpid, clear
     tossing, frothing
     churning, turning
     smooth, placid
                                       water

Water
     surf, shore
     wave, breaker
     feelings of closeness
       to our maker;
     needed, soothing
     renewing, laving
     tears, sweating
     baptizing, saving
                                       water

Water
     softened, piped
     distilled, wiped
     tanked and drank
     pumped, dumped
     leaked, sumped
     flushed, floated
     bridged, boated
                                    water

Water
     studied, muddied
     channeled, dammed
     crudded, flooded
     swum and skied
     Aquarians and all
     will ever need
                                  -water

Joseph G. Engemann
August 10, 1977

as a tentative forward to a
proposed limnology text

Copyright 1981 Joseph G. Engemann
[permission to reproduce is granted for non-profit use and/or for printings of less than 1,000 copies.]

The above was found when looking in my limnology notes from long ago to find something about "Langmuir circulation".  I gave up and looked in Wetzel's limnology textbook.  It is the seeming cylinders of alternating clockwise and counterclockwise water that, where they converge, push bits of debris or oils into surface streaks paralleling the wind direction.  I was thinking it must operate in the atmosphere on a much larger spatial scale and be responsible for some of the streaky weather patterns at times seen in rain, snow, and clouds.  I was going to send an email asking the weatherman for the Kalamazoo Gazette if they use that type of phenomenon to explain small scale weather patterns.

Joe Engemann   retired, Western Michigan University,  Kalamazoo, Michigan   March 16, 2017