- published: 22 May 2015
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In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. Known also as a conflux, it refers either to the point where a tributary joins a larger river, called the main stem, or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name, such as the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania creating the Ohio River.
The term is also used to describe the meeting of tidal or other non-riverine bodies of water, such as two canals or a canal and a lake. A one-mile (1.6 km) portion of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans accommodates the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal; therefore those three waterways are confluent there.
there's clear representation
but you can't make it out from here
when you find yourself
all crowded out
there's space available here
somewhere there is a hype
we want to believe in
but its failure to convince
has got us a leaving
there's a luminous dial
seems to need to glow
in a dark room with you
sleeping there
when you tire of the time it takes to know
there's still space available here
25 years worth of traffic
this side of the tunnel flow
has always got you waiting there
when you tire of the traffic
space is still available here
like a phantom in the space that can remain
between ever drop of rain
developing a notion in that falling ocean
that serves only as a reminder
that there's space for you
available here