An end, a continuation Treva Legassie

The meander shall lap up and erode where the walls of ‘improvement' rise.

Where colonial hands have built reinforcing walls to straighten the river, there is still hope. The water remembers. 

The Don River, Wonscotonach, empties into Lake Ontario. I learned from Shelby Lisk that Lake Ontario comes from a Mohawk word meaning beautiful or good lake. 

Quote, “Imagine if everyone called it the beautiful lake. Would they treat it differently?” [1] Unquote. 

Endnotes

[1] Shelby Lisk, Email message to author, October 17, 2022.