topology

sketch ::: 1706410455639

mctavish

throng

  • 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

from

  • why is this night this day this hour this moment different from all others?
  • stable state equilibrium
  • mirage
  • set of gears & struts
  • form change adaptations
  • choreography mathematics theorems
  • natural law physics stars
  • tonal signature nutrient profile
  • language alphabets symbols
  • drawing cave drawing sky drawing skull
  • flux flow rise
  • difficult to capture
  • carbon currency
  • mineral constraint
  • trophic level
  • efficiency
  • short ladder
  • polyphony topology
  • C N P basis vectors
  • weather
  • tides light plow
  • poison shattered
  • maps fractured
  • space faster
  • time spinning
  • gears

bird

  • 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

all

  • downward glance creased map old building vacant transmission
  • radio station cement wire wood vinyl recordings
  • grass forgotten language roles enactment script score reading glass
  • stone paper vinyl microfiche transmission reception receiver sensitive
  • convergent frequencies overlayment sine wave addition sums sound score recording
  • many languages multiple dimensions C N P frequencies
  • some below the threshold of hearing
  • others short fast high all at once
  • different scales different velocities different currencies materials markets of exchange
  • it would be hard to put this back together information lost sent number station
  • codes plurality of transmissions ghost radio
  • put the sound back put back transects seasonal constellations geometries probabilities
  • catalysts circulations taut dependencies resilience arithmetics liminal clocks
  • the eco-polyphonics of all living systems

platform

  • 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

orbitsuspended

  • cast projections
  • shadows along
  • interior walls
  • the mind's
  • ceiling
  • vowels
  • a hollow echo
  • text
  • &. white
  • space
  • i mean a
  • blank
  • echo
  • gravity
  • word orbit
  • suspended minutes
  • blackhole now-ness
  • careening weeks
  • eye of the hurricane
  • in its stillness
  • drew in whole
  • years

wind-blown

  • 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 !

to

  • 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

city

  • 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

heat

  • no rain again last night
  • humidity swallowed by air
  • suspension
  • no release
  • dry river dry soil
  • bucket after bucket carried
  • cold well .map(water => pasture)
  • long cold spring &. then
  • heat came with bone not water ||
  • only
  • this vessel this gallery these ribs
  • a cage
  • for birds
  • an absence only lonely
  • attention swings ::: an acrobat
  • an aerial artist
  • trapeze circus
  • 3-ring digits
  • clickable texts
  • shining neon
  • pawn shop blinking
  • payday loans
  • apoplectic news
  • heavy rain

back

  • 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

voyage

  • 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

every

  • 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

drawer

  • 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

ready

  • 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

down

  • the passenger left & wandered to the river edge
  • tall grass abandoned plot slope tangled bank
  • electric passenger
  • feathers against the ripe pale blades & reedy fishers
  • spark filament poetry orchestration animation
  • memory storage bank
  • after 8 days on the 8th day at 3:48
  • the passenger left the building & wandered
  • towards river edge past tall grasses abandoned plots
  • down sloping entangled bank worn burdened electric passenger
  • lay down feathers against the ripening pale blades & watched
  • the reedy fishers bent stalks headed trousers folded
  • pail in hand to shore chlorophyll surging through limbs
  • pulsing turning in the yellow light

(re)enactment

  • photosynthetic fusion carbon pool
  • sequester sequester bury deeper
  • down & under & soil & fossil & black oil
  • ink memory frozen fire
  • this then this a ritual grassland reclamation
  • (re)enactment
  • action painting action coding
  • abstract insurrection
  • repair sound reverberate
  • thrum thatch call
  • a bird blade leaf stem
  • frequency vibration
  • signal short wave
  • modulation resonation
  • radio photo destination
  • a photosynthesis
  • transfer raw vertex junction pivot pools
  • food web weights & likelihoods
  • circle orbit cycling need
  • birth growth death decay
  • de compose release

fungus

  • 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

of

  • 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

uttered

  • receiver net web electron field short wave thatch
  • wireless signal code
  • number station urgent message
  • change of course
  • turn back the clock (re)do (red)o stop the gears
  • throw the switch
  • turn the helm the wheel the tide the orbit
  • mend restart retrain reboard rewire
  • electrify set in motion
  • animate & breathe
  • once again repeat again retie retry reweave again
  • a name uttered speak again
  • reclaim restore correct

dustlit

  • honored listeners present & absent today (yesterday)
  • honored receivers future reception
  • audion circuit
  • grid-leak detector diode || grid => cathode
  • regenerative form
  • telephony radio talking newspaper
  • text => speech => signals => waves => recording => radiation => distillation
  • electrons through a vacuum wireless body-less
  • space without a filament without a spark without a fire
  • morse code => speech => music => flight
  • thermionic emission liberation
  • electrode release electron temperature (heat => leap)
  • thermal energy => charge carrier material work function catapult trapeze
  • electromagnetic waves through a gap => light
  • electromagnetic fields are a filament not a plow
  • radio frequency identification of goods
  • markers of heat of movement
  • supermarket radio
  • carbon isotope detection trophic code
  • visceral magnetic gravity pulse
  • arterial electrical currents light
  • static noise
  • the message
  • metal surface heat
  • thermoelastic bend & flow
  • ions eons millennia
  • vinyl disk
  • labeled iron shelf
  • dustlit volume
  • dancehall volume
  • phonograph telegraph
  • braille
  • spinner
  • feedback

bentincompatible

  • breathe animate spark
  • pollination proliferation mineralization
  • green pigment chlorophyll carbon water weaving milling spinning
  • oxygen energy light
  • moment ratio cello ratio orchestra ratio choir ratio grassland ratio
  • wetland ratio ocean redfield ratio broken stick vibrating string
  • eigenvalues slanted towards instability collisional cycling
  • lack of continuance certain chaos
  • queer nonlinear signal skewed
  • bent
  • incompatible not computable indecipherable inscrutable
  • interval of change flux charge exchange transition evolution dynamics
  • flow bifurcations unbound untied
  • sudden cloud break asymptotic stable stillness center
  • an orbit a continuance a vector field exuberance
  • neon vibration computation geologic carbon spilled across the sea
  • deep beneath the surface roots shredded ancient bones past sink store archive lock
  • zero hero carbon sink pivot tangent steady drop

punctuate

  • 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

translationliterature

  • microscope observatory tiny vial
  • tiny xylophone tiny ribcage
  • tube => transistor cathode ray tube
  • raster digital pixel knowing
  • language drawing vector contour lost
  • cloud of pixels probabilities clump densities likelihood noise
  • boltzmann entropy analogue encoded signal computation
  • digit swarm translation
  • literature science novel science poetry science
  • narrative past text pollination
  • picture science syntax metaphor diagram
  • divine static steady state
  • mythic science
  • evolving ever changeful circle science
  • taut self-organizing orbit science
  • geometric atmospheric light nitrogen
  • nutrient profile adaptation
  • mineral light weather water
  • vial drop science
  • torn curtain broken window chaos science

birds

  • layers of heaven
  • cardinalities
  • threshold probabilities
  • levels of possible quantum
  • paths
  • knots
  • countable
  • a lattice lash tied taut
  • between zero & one
  • infinity
  • countable rational salt & pepper mesh
  • or an uncountable irrational sea
  • unbroken surface
  • lifetime & extinction
  • angels birds grassland constellation
  • seemingly infinite => countable
  • 2 (not many)
  • 1 (one => zero)
  • abstraction reduction
  • trace contour
  • subtraction
  • collapse
  • absence
  • zero
  • ghosts

the

  • downward glance creased map marked path
  • radio research building institute
  • factory platform station
  • slant rusty hinge door sunlight
  • spider housings metal glint antenna
  • vines static deep dark corner silence
  • vinyl recordings specimen drawers
  • faded paper census sketchpad marks
  • lost language fallen angels
  • frozen role enactments
  • jukebox score
  • piano rolls
  • silent tattered scripts
  • stored inside this moss bound station
  • critical to the mission
  • notes numbers data
  • handbook manual translation codes
  • recorded ghost grass chorus
  • dried pressed limbs reed blade stem seed
  • circuit diagram equations

was

  • 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 !

ecosystem

  • 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

limbs

  • the passenger left & wandered to the river edge
  • tall grass abandoned plot slope tangled bank
  • electric passenger
  • feathers against the ripe pale blades & reedy fishers
  • spark filament poetry orchestration animation
  • memory storage bank
  • after 8 days on the 8th day at 3:48
  • the passenger left the building & wandered
  • towards river edge past tall grasses abandoned plots
  • down sloping entangled bank worn burdened electric passenger
  • lay down feathers against the ripening pale blades & watched
  • the reedy fishers bent stalks headed trousers folded
  • pail in hand to shore chlorophyll surging through limbs
  • pulsing turning in the yellow light

dry

  • 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

vibration

  • photosynthetic fusion carbon pool
  • sequester sequester bury deeper
  • down & under & soil & fossil & black oil
  • ink memory frozen fire
  • this then this a ritual grassland reclamation
  • (re)enactment
  • action painting action coding
  • abstract insurrection
  • repair sound reverberate
  • thrum thatch call
  • a bird blade leaf stem
  • frequency vibration
  • signal short wave
  • modulation resonation
  • radio photo destination
  • a photosynthesis
  • transfer raw vertex junction pivot pools
  • food web weights & likelihoods
  • circle orbit cycling need
  • birth growth death decay
  • de compose release

row

  • 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

recollection

  • handbook of codes (1938 ::: 4th edition)
  • corner ledger entry
  • creased marked stained
  • unsteady hand page 48
  • pointer to drawer 89
  • swiftly culled collection
  • quickly scrawled notation
  • hike knapsack specimen
  • slender tender
  • sun salutation
  • pale & rising leaves
  • slow tango
  • archer & the doe
  • deftly spun golden silk
  • ecstatic synthesis
  • snapshot
  • drawing sky to soil
  • a rhizomatic broadcast
  • joyful ode electric pulse
  • that day the hiker struck & gathered
  • stamped & scrawled
  • a description the day
  • flash drive
  • cellular recollection
  • slowly fading
  • casting of a day
  • plant companion
  • pulsing network
  • etched on vinyl
  • voice wind chorus meadow chord
  • a sound restated now
  • perhaps could permeate the ether

flow

  • breathe animate spark
  • pollination proliferation mineralization
  • green pigment chlorophyll carbon water weaving milling spinning
  • oxygen energy light
  • moment ratio cello ratio orchestra ratio choir ratio grassland ratio
  • wetland ratio ocean redfield ratio broken stick vibrating string
  • eigenvalues slanted towards instability collisional cycling
  • lack of continuance certain chaos
  • queer nonlinear signal skewed
  • bent
  • incompatible not computable indecipherable inscrutable
  • interval of change flux charge exchange transition evolution dynamics
  • flow bifurcations unbound untied
  • sudden cloud break asymptotic stable stillness center
  • an orbit a continuance a vector field exuberance
  • neon vibration computation geologic carbon spilled across the sea
  • deep beneath the surface roots shredded ancient bones past sink store archive lock
  • zero hero carbon sink pivot tangent steady drop

mapping

  • 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

clocks

  • 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

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

oil

  • 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

rider

  • 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

oscillations

  • 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

singer

  • 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

passenger

  • 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

bound

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

languages

  • downward glance creased map old building vacant transmission
  • radio station cement wire wood vinyl recordings
  • grass forgotten language roles enactment script score reading glass
  • stone paper vinyl microfiche transmission reception receiver sensitive
  • convergent frequencies overlayment sine wave addition sums sound score recording
  • many languages multiple dimensions C N P frequencies
  • some below the threshold of hearing
  • others short fast high all at once
  • different scales different velocities different currencies materials markets of exchange
  • it would be hard to put this back together information lost sent number station
  • codes plurality of transmissions ghost radio
  • put the sound back put back transects seasonal constellations geometries probabilities
  • catalysts circulations taut dependencies resilience arithmetics liminal clocks
  • the eco-polyphonics of all living systems

form(s)

  • 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

cipher

  • skull telescope
  • recorded playback frame
  • incomplete phonetics
  • extinct past taxon gap
  • cipher thrivance teeming whole
  • an awkward re assemblance
  • blank missing vertex node
  • absent click track metrics scale & score
  • archive junk drawer weather babel chaos din
  • vinyl recordings musical notations
  • frequencies harmonics rhythm velocities
  • charges changes coupled difference equations
  • probabilistic time series snapshots samples pressings indices
  • the symbols were known but the phonetics were lost
  • the clocks were out of phase
  • pulse & counting skew

cross

  • fires wind walls cross the plains
  • siberian methane craters epoch ice mass glaciers melted
  • carbon water torrents spew
  • glaciers plastic castles plastic wasteland acid death zone
  • tsunami mass breadth depth force physics
  • pandemic fascist prisons state-blue murder
  • homeless ghosts plywood window
  • cafe stalled railways vacant buslines
  • emergency crisis full wards breathless death
  • hunger walks through newsprint clickbait
  • advertisement-laced bad news
  • devastating news unprecedented news every-day cataclysmic criminal leader news
  • felon leaders moloch leaders consuming leaders devouring leaders marrow sucking leaders
  • maskless faithless villains bearing flags & spewing venom
  • & citizen knapsack bandaged wanderers
  • greasy coughing last-legs diner masked ghosts

meadow

  • dusty
  • dry
  • road
  • repairman rider passenger lone bird
  • grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
  • parched
  • to deep well
  • poured
  • vessel
  • curved heaven
  • layers walked
  • blocks & blocks miles & miles
  • grid traversals railroad shortcuts faster more
  • pause nap fuel sandwich coffee shelter onward
  • restless random walk
  • repairman rider passenger lone bird
  • grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
  • arrived on platform wasteland meadow track
  • suitcase sandwich coffee thermos
  • tepid brown liquid greasy paper
  • folded map
  • worn matchbook
  • lucky strike
  • illumination recitation number sequence radio station
  • urgent message scrawled location
  • this was the day the time the place
  • last chance prairie recitation reclamation
  • stop the gears bend the tide
  • stitch mend reweave restore rewind

function

  • 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