topology

sketch ::: 1706410416479

mctavish

ground

electric magnet migrate translate
hero zero suitcase clock map train nomad
boat bird data airbase data cube data curved space
prism lattice fabric timestamp schema graph
reify untie unfold unroll
electric orbit ghost force ether spark
specimen drawer weather static wind-blown number station
solar noise cloud formation storm titration wireless smoke-filled sky

broke ground broke thatch broke net broke flow
telegraph rhizome circuit network junction
flag siren point nutrient carbon tangle
broke ratio physics orbit fixed-point evolution
clue drawer box film parchment vinyl
blood feather stalk beak grass root
paper stamp store mark transect photo record image cell
before axe pick shovel hoe oxen plow
before hard ground was broken
still woven yellow green ticker
tape pulsed code transmission
echo vacuum tube transistor
circuit still electrified
& living

ignite !

ze)

stitch
carbon cycle
back
intact
structure function
sink & source
sink & source

theory of null values
problem of null values
hollow sound
sparse matrix
initial conditions external
parameters landscape weather
bee flower pollen lit pollen wings

parts of speech sets thought
categories cages
language archive (memory tables data pollen noise)
quest voyage counting
physics web grassland sea net trophic ties traveler
gears
repair(*) rider lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
illuminate restore resurrect reweave rebreathe
trophic chain ecosystem length & breadth harmonic series
swings & orbits
collapse & chaos
dynamic state constant flux
climate nutrient cycling community structures evolution

no time now time soon time

matrices

cell number table
column thicket
stream set row
coordinates paths city streets
asphalt chess board too-long fair
halogen labyrinth playing cards
row boat row red turnstile coins
subway memory map

the problem of sparse matrices
absence
not known
not values
not join
not tied
not said
empty cells
blank hole gap
knot record
not knot
forget forgot
never known
not filled
not asked
erase erasure
not zero not silence
a lack of air
a lack of mark
missing value(s)
something stolen
not revealed not found
not thought of not dreamed of
not imagined
not lost
not lonely
not a huge hole in the
sky

probabilities

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
reviewed the course the notes the goal
clock cycle nutrient cycling handbook codes
algorithms generative recipes diagrams flow probabilities coupled difference equations score
recorder of all things pigeon stone database journal records catalogue
ordered voices trophic chain biome web ::: a cycle
the goal to roll back first conditions
frames loom gears tangled strands
particles iron flint filing receivers long echo curvatures orbits
compass paths elliptical earth lines sky threads hertzian waves
maxwell electromagnetic radiation spark gap transmission signal smoke
moth-wing chaos cyclone silence thermal currents prairie noise
stochastic resilience robust fractionated adaptable evolving noise
particles beats rhythms frequencies dissonant resplendent symphony
verdant song radar language rubbed wings
quickening pulse through stalk & reed

sale

watches for sale
circus hawker
projected image alley
film alley lamp
shadow night ink
pool found object
theater company sound
foundry sound factory
new polyphony alienation
intersections junctions
friction resolution
chords ropes sails

layers maps transects
routes destinations
vectors fields pixel web join caught number cells facts
dense matrix
sparse sky

absence

lexicon of relations
linguistics language
shifting drawer
predicate proclaim declare affirm assert
text stream interface
pipeline filter map fold
density of links
connectance metrics
flows & form
web network branch tree graph
extensible modular composable construction
shape shifting flow emergence change

infinite series
calculus of motion calculus of change
physics of angles angels
sound waves light
inflection reflection
convergence to fixed point orbit loop or cycle
convergence to zero
absence silent slope abyss
shape shifting flow emergence change

associative trail path spline index jump
graph traversal heat diffusion fluid flow
night mail railway saturn sky
shape shifting flow emergence change

semantic nets systems frames rules
automated reasoning engines
ontologies schemas
inference machines
classifiers theorem provers
maps

rider

this was the morning this was the place

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
worn suitcase sandwich
tepid brown liquid thermos
creased map
compass light
lucky strike
hat axle pocket knife
coins for the boatman
steam engine captain
singer all aboard
ticket agent paper
tin cup beggar thief

:::

homeostasis functions script energy production
flows & motion
minerals carbon
produced consumed released
the mill
the body ::: a federation
web loom constellation
temporary boundary of skin
stoichiometric polyphony
chorus set of strings

chemistry & light

reading
physical traversal
visceral traversal
repeat repeat loop
link pause dwell leap
hypertext state machine
railway navigation
photosynthetic bit flow
binary twist
one zero distance field
microscope telescope
molecular astronomy
infinite between

absence

fire ash carbon gone
nothing none empty not
theory of null numbers
vacant absent zero space

theory of sparse matrix
an absence
exponential decline
crash .

holes in the matrix
gap(s) ...
column row
moth hole black hole
space silence fact

theory of null values
silence of null values
neon vacant blinking light
empty storm-drain alley

the

solitude
not silence
every morning
heat rises
in this
basin
these bones

polar landscapes
melt
colonists of wind
dust storms
settle the globe

no rain
longing
thirst
drought
it was like this
every morning

watering can
metallic echo
pale green
drip

industry!
empty hands
vacant skull

specimen

tuning discontinuity fragmentation
multiplicity assemblage blur
distance metrics near / far this-ness
frequency instruments theory
narrow limited constrained
drawer paper file grass specimen stalk leaf root
instrument network transmission system
sensitive antenna chlorophyll swarm
body axes mapped static system structure
food chain length & flow

tensile

industry!
gears machines efficiency
plow & yoke
breaking ground
carbon cycling
bound flow
tensile vectors
release capture
web cycle graph system lattice
plumes & spills

neon

trace erosion fragment shadow window time
season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
blueprint blue light paper pressing
chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
weight rhizome tent matrix building frame

dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
for each map filter fold list railway table
(off || on 0 || 1)
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

ze)left

the repairman rider passenger lone bird

grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)

left the throng of city depot
arrived alone worn suitcase sandwich lukewarm coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
rusted texaco station folded map
urgent mission
fix the system
repair reclaim rebuild reweave restore
this prairie meadow sequestration

syntax

industry(!)

stop gear
backspace

particle wave oscilloscope
rhythm beats tonal frame measure arc

sanctify
dance score action plan
syntax grammar punctuate
formula method outline theorem proof
silver set of slides
count map pulse
particles of speech
observe measure metric record journal data log
structure filter draw blueprint box
cell lattice web net moth flame
formula physics flow heat
electric gear locomotion transformation
fold reduce fix mend undo redo sew sow
archive find search echo
resonate release

a

late summer day dusty strands of light
taut against the very ether of air & day
particles stretched into waves cast from far away
circle orb fire dusty filaments tied against
strong limbs drawn nets from sky they pulled
muscled down & in these nets these baskets they
(the wiry reaching stalks) gathered invisible dinosaurs
their bones now atmospheric ghosts
of all released dead matter sources of their gathering
a hallelujah of photosynthetic abandon
a transference a miracle accumulation a sink a
grabbing & bending & forcing deep underground
a conversion a reclamation a redemption
a deep cellar window of light

ladder

it was like this every morning
every night
every afternoon
every hour every day every particle every sweep
of hand every nuclear click digital + &
watches for sale for locomotion
for steam oil coal crash

knapsack traveler nomad grazer quest pollinator pathways routes
corridors migrations disrupted interrupted poisoned clock stop last page
extinction countable few zero gone
fragmentation no chute no ladder no path no way through over under
bridge collapsed railway fallen circuit broken echo dulled
tape erased
invisible map red-sky morning red mourning red warning
self assembly
the art of
steering listening
reception feedback
fluidity response
count back count back
systems cognition circuits learning emergence flux flow
code embedded deep in cell in memory in twisted strands an alphabet a code

still

a cast back cellular recording
etched on vinyl record number 43
still intact the voice & windy chordal chorus meadow
vinyl pulsing network
perhaps if sent through radio wave & echo
sound reclaimed restored restated
ghostly sonic vapor could elicit in its hearing
a tender recitation (re)creation reclamation restoration reformation
redemptive grass reenactment transmigration
root-to-root transmission
& a material transfer flux & flow equation
formula calculation run through
wrung through monte carlo iterations
stochastic rinse residue distillations oscillations
chord progressions ::: rhythmic titrations
an ideal polyphony this vital web
(re)creation would be difficult & risky

machinerepairman

start again empty chalkboard
wound tape deck of cards
blank recording unpressed vinyl unengraved metal open cave
an equation computation restoration symphony
incantation animation last stop grassland texaco station
origin of species perfect ratio entanglement bank fragile web steady state
forever abundant resplendent frictionless eternal energy oxygen machine

repairman rider passenger hero (ze)ro lone bird
the blade the dyke the bird (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
worn suitcase sandwich coffee thermos
tepid brown liquid greasy paper
creased map
compass light
lucky strike

line

transformation
noise

voices tubes
moths jar
feedback electrical line static
harmonic ghosts
resonating strings
sympathetic rooms
wood wire reed sky

composer ink transmission
naked contour
wood pitch reed membrane breath line
invisible waves harmonic ladder
wire resonance strings chamber
hidden fabric
bagpipe
meadow score

lone

on the afternoon of the 8th day
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
only a bird not a god
only an old sewing machine

treadle & thread
stitch back repair repair
lace prairie weave roots
pump light well bind
animate turn breathe
circulate & mend

body

on that day that hour researcher
lab-coat gatherer archive net bird memory
had the bird sing one last song
(carefully recorded)
after singing breathing trembling casting tonal net
once last sweetly
tender night remembered dawn
the bird the singer was then collected
marked with capture date time label stamp
vinyl voice specimen body bones feather cell lock drawer
more precious for its absence last glimpse species culture

slender threshold beat => tone (frequency wave)
particle rhythm synthesis
sea matter light
redfield 1958 strange ratio
woven fabric green &
flight
the bird sang one last song
bird singer song
dated stamped labeled
vinyl voice specimen body bones feather
lock drawer archive ivy building room

if

a cast back cellular recording
etched on vinyl record number 43
still intact the voice & windy chordal chorus meadow
vinyl pulsing network
perhaps if sent through radio wave & echo
sound reclaimed restored restated
ghostly sonic vapor could elicit in its hearing
a tender recitation (re)creation reclamation restoration reformation
redemptive grass reenactment transmigration
root-to-root transmission
& a material transfer flux & flow equation
formula calculation run through
wrung through monte carlo iterations
stochastic rinse residue distillations oscillations
chord progressions ::: rhythmic titrations
an ideal polyphony this vital web
(re)creation would be difficult & risky

invocation

electricity insight action
poet singer cantor coder
rhythm rhyme repetition
invoke evoke circle
paper poetry storage machine (memory printed symbols space)
spoken textile poet singer living animation
electric insight action text encoded incantation
rhythm rhyme recitation circle invocation
tape magnetic pitch sound frequency modulation
transcription translation voyage
a river a boatman a coin an oar
a knapsack a shortwave radio
receiver transmitter signal
voice frequency on / off

pulse antenna alphabetic
graph glyph string
linear spline space
sequence pages spine spline
approximation map one route
one journey electric geo
route road reenactment context
devoid absent world generating physical
attention listening seeing
gaze cross sensory skull
skeletal memory echo machine
pulse current blood
sinew vinyl gramophone => radio
moment (re)creation past time
modulation frequency
(un)synchronize the clocks

nothing

faded animations faded colors green yellow brown => gray
plant specimens stamped time-stamped the walker rider passenger
collector observer marks down weather rain heat cold dry piano rolls
score movement slows to snapshots
pinning clothes recording transects counts
footnotes footnotes footnotes
sets & grass to find the trophic structure
problem of scale reference static object product state
broken rhythm boxed number tables
frozen vertex chalk body outline fixed

time step nutrient cycle handbook of codes
algorithm recipe diagram flow
now back but then not now but perhaps
maybe just || nothing
rectify & join

wind

cloud upside down root sequestration
stop hold bar block this avalanche of loss
skeleton machine skull writing ceiling wailing keening siren howl feedback broken
wire cricket friction klezmer waltz reed membrane wind bone mallet hollow stem
a regiment of meadow
circus tent swirling dendrite dervish dance cybernetic helm storm mast mass
sunless subway depth

horsepower wind dams & mill harness velocity reactant
nutrient use production efficiency industry! rhizome microbes bacteria
soil rushes moss wing drawers files books tape press type ink compression & encodings
digital transcriptions vinyl pressings drawings equations journals samples collections bodies
filaments antenna wing skull vertebrae jaw hand stalk leaf flower pollen
route cellular trace remnants residue
film plaster fossil cave ochre & charcoal forms contours the hunt the relation the web
pins papers stamp data survey study researcher walking catching pulling recording retrieving
net knapsack bullet glove transect count map compare average mean value
variation noise signal caught taxonomy of system observation of change
record function deduction of web

this

why is this day unlike any other day?
this moment this view this inflection bending curve like no other
or why is this day like an other once upon a time dinosaur last-day meteorite explosion
dusty smoke-filled orange sky

an

why is this day unlike any other day?
this moment this view this inflection bending curve like no other
or why is this day like an other once upon a time dinosaur last-day meteorite explosion
dusty smoke-filled orange sky

signal

faint signal pale wave slow current faraway transmission
faded recording
long ago the far away a t-cell twist like this it goes
that jukebox love song jukebox archive jukebox dance song
rusty turnstile chance song billiard dice song co2 roulette
trophic past text particles of speech
trophic cascade light water steam then ghost

corner bar stool
the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
napkin blueprints cipher curves & codes
beer-stained formula calculations configurations
phase plane transformations

estimation

parameter variable matrix
grid structure thing
observation frame tool
equations models contours
distillation estimation
syntax set domain & range
functional translation

not constrained in columns
not implicit static vertex stone
explicit fluid statement sets
reified relations
triples
articulated
joins

the lattice the ladder the sky

queer isocline bent contour curve
topographic skew
blue green florescence rush
wide-hipped hue
the morning light chlorophyll
rubbed blades rain or dew
hush suspended ready electric
whispered static light
the lattice the ladder the sky

slender stem blade .&. meadow
harmonic structures ladders heavens
tonality ecology dynamics systems weather
synthesis loom radio sky

other

how is this night different from all other nights?
short trophic chains
webs constrained
nutrient enrichment enigma
nutrient paradox nutrient cage bind limit
stable state dream fragile balance
weather heat rain flood fire
orbit cycle chaos
hydrogen oxygen ::: so hard to fuse
weld spark twist
ecosystem metrics gears & struts
evolution adaptation
form(s) of change

windshield

database of tools
inventory manuscript
shadow cave projection

grassland reclamation
archive parchment traveler rider repair(*man) blade
a solitude of vastness vibrant vertiginous chlorophyll tinged hum
birds insects clouds
young queer slender deer
a glowing noise a unity a collision a confluence

time bends forward leans back
circles like a bird of prey
tensile stem ::: a cellular conductance
electric neural circuit blood
windswept dream of flight
vessel heart rib & loom
taut sinew vein

a knot a sailor
a sparse insect count
clear windshield
bee by bee sparse matrix
once wild swarm buzz now
a one by one flower hover
sparse set pollen heat

repeat

homeostasis functions script energy production
flows & motion
minerals carbon
produced consumed released
the mill
the body ::: a federation
web loom constellation
temporary boundary of skin
stoichiometric polyphony
chorus set of strings

chemistry & light

reading
physical traversal
visceral traversal
repeat repeat loop
link pause dwell leap
hypertext state machine
railway navigation
photosynthetic bit flow
binary twist
one zero distance field
microscope telescope
molecular astronomy
infinite between

seed

data modeling ecosystem transcription
contour core motion
stripped down
essential form
arc distilled
abstraction
line drawn
color form shape
context seed dynamics
phase plane essence
naked mirror silhouette
skeletal moving gears

translation filter
transformation
map bait lure tackle
spinning wheel
rapunzel wizard magic fish
chutes & ladders
connection conjunction sentence
necklace
purl one
knit one
knot one
sticky spider silk
relations table entry
time stamp seal or wax

transact system
query language
row by row relation
containment category rope bind
join

arcsanctify

industry(!)

stop gear
backspace

particle wave oscilloscope
rhythm beats tonal frame measure arc

sanctify
dance score action plan
syntax grammar punctuate
formula method outline theorem proof
silver set of slides
count map pulse
particles of speech
observe measure metric record journal data log
structure filter draw blueprint box
cell lattice web net moth flame
formula physics flow heat
electric gear locomotion transformation
fold reduce fix mend undo redo sew sow
archive find search echo
resonate release

machines

industry!
gears machines efficiency
plow & yoke
breaking ground
carbon cycling
bound flow
tensile vectors
release capture
web cycle graph system lattice
plumes & spills

cube

fact ::: hyperspace
a cube an axe
enter retrieve deliver swift
data knowledge reconstruct
reach link traverse
node to node abandon

latch hinge
door subway turnstile entrance arrow
knot connection not reversal
subject verb object stop

food web vertex
consume / uptake / feed / decay
pool to pool transmission
mycorrhiza fungus root
stoichiometric filter map

collision confluence fusion
dissonant echo ripple
fission waves
node to node connection
reified to predicate
a measurement
unveiled revealed made plain

recording

a cast back cellular recording
etched on vinyl record number 43
still intact the voice & windy chordal chorus meadow
vinyl pulsing network
perhaps if sent through radio wave & echo
sound reclaimed restored restated
ghostly sonic vapor could elicit in its hearing
a tender recitation (re)creation reclamation restoration reformation
redemptive grass reenactment transmigration
root-to-root transmission
& a material transfer flux & flow equation
formula calculation run through
wrung through monte carlo iterations
stochastic rinse residue distillations oscillations
chord progressions ::: rhythmic titrations
an ideal polyphony this vital web
(re)creation would be difficult & risky

highway

city of sleep city of masks city of subway & turnstile
too close stand back headlights
tracks nyx boat coin chaos birds
stain permeate imprint drench spill
illuminate transcribe prime stretch nail

theater of the very small theater of passions theater of stairwells
theater of windows of doors of bus stop shelter of boat of wind of oar & effort
railway roadway highway meadow
this place this platform this vacant
iowa small tool shed top hill grave field

fragment

trace erosion fragment shadow window time
season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
blueprint blue light paper pressing
chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
weight rhizome tent matrix building frame

dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
for each map filter fold list railway table
(off || on 0 || 1)
repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

vacuum

electric magnet migrate translate
hero zero suitcase clock map train nomad
boat bird data airbase data cube data curved space
prism lattice fabric timestamp schema graph
reify untie unfold unroll
electric orbit ghost force ether spark
specimen drawer weather static wind-blown number station
solar noise cloud formation storm titration wireless smoke-filled sky

broke ground broke thatch broke net broke flow
telegraph rhizome circuit network junction
flag siren point nutrient carbon tangle
broke ratio physics orbit fixed-point evolution
clue drawer box film parchment vinyl
blood feather stalk beak grass root
paper stamp store mark transect photo record image cell
before axe pick shovel hoe oxen plow
before hard ground was broken
still woven yellow green ticker
tape pulsed code transmission
echo vacuum tube transistor
circuit still electrified
& living

ignite !

grass

stitch
carbon cycle
back
intact
structure function
sink & source
sink & source

theory of null values
problem of null values
hollow sound
sparse matrix
initial conditions external
parameters landscape weather
bee flower pollen lit pollen wings

parts of speech sets thought
categories cages
language archive (memory tables data pollen noise)
quest voyage counting
physics web grassland sea net trophic ties traveler
gears
repair(*) rider lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
illuminate restore resurrect reweave rebreathe
trophic chain ecosystem length & breadth harmonic series
swings & orbits
collapse & chaos
dynamic state constant flux
climate nutrient cycling community structures evolution

no time now time soon time

&

goal ::: a net for capture seismograph of wind knowledge graphs monads
cybernetics books boat numerical recipes algorithms formulas dictionaries
structures grammar syntax dynamics choreographies
configurations changes chord progressions
harmonic sets heterotrophs producers fungal nutrient pools
weather self-organizing clockworks
a computing machine gears the mail a cloth
checkerboard abacus a network of relations
attracting orbit counting mapping computing
navigation a compass the ocean
a sailor ropes & tackle wind & helm

alienation

watches for sale
circus hawker
projected image alley
film alley lamp
shadow night ink
pool found object
theater company sound
foundry sound factory
new polyphony alienation
intersections junctions
friction resolution
chords ropes sails

layers maps transects
routes destinations
vectors fields pixel web join caught number cells facts
dense matrix
sparse sky

rider

this was the morning this was the place

repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
worn suitcase sandwich
tepid brown liquid thermos
creased map
compass light
lucky strike
hat axle pocket knife
coins for the boatman
steam engine captain
singer all aboard
ticket agent paper
tin cup beggar thief

reclaim

the repairman rider passenger lone bird
grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
looked back
not again before
but before that long ago once upon a long away
far away geologic layered canyon way back
glacial pressed rock far back
urgent mission
rescue resurrection
artifact storage cave recording trace
bones
fossil tooth
once again repeat again retie retry reweave again
a name uttered speak again
reclaim restore
rewind
redeem
correct

shattered glass cadenza

asked

cell number table
column thicket
stream set row
coordinates paths city streets
asphalt chess board too-long fair
halogen labyrinth playing cards
row boat row red turnstile coins
subway memory map

the problem of sparse matrices
absence
not known
not values
not join
not tied
not said
empty cells
blank hole gap
knot record
not knot
forget forgot
never known
not filled
not asked
erase erasure
not zero not silence
a lack of air
a lack of mark
missing value(s)
something stolen
not revealed not found
not thought of not dreamed of
not imagined
not lost
not lonely
not a huge hole in the
sky

deliver

fact ::: hyperspace
a cube an axe
enter retrieve deliver swift
data knowledge reconstruct
reach link traverse
node to node abandon

latch hinge
door subway turnstile entrance arrow
knot connection not reversal
subject verb object stop

food web vertex
consume / uptake / feed / decay
pool to pool transmission
mycorrhiza fungus root
stoichiometric filter map

collision confluence fusion
dissonant echo ripple
fission waves
node to node connection
reified to predicate
a measurement
unveiled revealed made plain

pillars

us / them / ze / I
the body plural the collection the ecology of I
constellation tonal set
commutative diagram
vector pillars basis set
fire bison
microfiche
memex landscape archive

moth flame fuel
what angel whose wings which bird
tightrope perilous torch gas flight
filament neon halogen light
solar spectra halo
semisynthetic polychromatic light
harvest net gap spark
every angel every bird every fire
every light