I was thinking about oral communication versus written communication, how the former implies immediacy (although there are ways around this, as we know from folksongs and children's clapping games being passed down) and the latter implies permanence (although we can preserve oral transmissions too, and written ones can both be destroyed or become inaccessible to us if we lose the key to them). And how a message conveyed on water is almost more oral than written. sovay said she liked the idea of the water writing itself, and that made me think of how I had initially seen the power lines as the writer, but it could be the water itself. Or maybe this act of writing is a collaboration between the power lines, the water, and the sky.