topology

sketch ::: 1706410479302

mctavish

prime

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

tender

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

dawn

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

a

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

oxygen

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

(our

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

signals

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

number

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

moment

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

arrived

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

drawn

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

drawings

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

pause

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

bones

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

texts

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

beat

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

sparse

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

dendrite

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

railway

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

cast

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

series

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

along

memory motel memory text textile knots
memory prayer memory fair memory microscope
counted collected collated stored
clouds the cloud circuits wireless
electromagnetic flux & flow electron tubes & spark knots & tables columns & graphs
syntax vowels & minerals rhythm transactions exchange
elliptical pathways
orbits sea of memory navigation colliding waves
across along coordinates path road
vast space rope

re-listen record past voice wind grass bird
a re enactment an inhabitance embeddedness
past landscapes topologies geologies cellular matrix
diorama of exquisite detail alive stilled waiting silent
animate breathe illuminate turn the rusty gears wind the clock
alternating currents push zero pull rise level fall accelerate
pivot turn tangents of rest inflections
oars a boat receiver transmission
copper wire & air release the signal like icarus to sky
earth surface invisible tracks
1906 triode tube (last voice)
sensitive receiver ::: electromagnetic waves
ocean of chatter information signals beats sound
modulate frequencies cathode ray relay amplify
resonate signal expansion dial tune voice
spider silk taut web spinning affixed to slender stalk
root stem leaves flowerhead
culm (blade & sheath) inflorescent splendor

chutes

physical laws governing theorems systems form & function
n-body species interaction multi lingual multi scale stoichiometric
molecular spectral choral networks
multiple frame rates multiple scales projections synchronized moments colliding
separating departures arrivals hydrology of energy & material & landscape & time (clocks)
meeting at a time at a table in a cafe in a town on a specific day
a moment specific coordinates
exchange of goods voyage of goods transference encounter
chance the niche habitat fractal niche
harmonic series resonating sympathetic vibrating stable tonal isotopic
ladders chutes pipes circuits
currencies carbon nitrogen phosphorous rain
ladders pipes circuits energetic exchange system currency commerce
transformation conversion manufacture of material information transmitted
synthesis of data production efficiency nutrient use economy
intelligence craft gears assembly pipelines factories blueprint
conservation of energy expenditure of energy conflagration carbon
coal bones oil organics drilled excavated broken harnessed released

ratio

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

lone

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

weather

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

retie

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

markets

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

dayflash

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

a

a hare moves
half the distance
repeat repeat loop
never stop never loss never last measure last chance
last breath last half last step
density tonal lattice
2d telegraph
duration plot staccato rhythm pattern
stochastic cyclone cluster noise chance score
sonic braille morse code stream sound
alphabet word phrase sentence time paper scroll
lattice graph network web tree
link join conjunction semicolon latch hinge
doorway portal pivot junction
conjoin jump
place or point of union
two or more railway lines
junction meet or cross

was

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

memory

memory motel memory text textile knots
memory prayer memory fair memory microscope
counted collected collated stored
clouds the cloud circuits wireless
electromagnetic flux & flow electron tubes & spark knots & tables columns & graphs
syntax vowels & minerals rhythm transactions exchange
elliptical pathways
orbits sea of memory navigation colliding waves
across along coordinates path road
vast space rope

re-listen record past voice wind grass bird
a re enactment an inhabitance embeddedness
past landscapes topologies geologies cellular matrix
diorama of exquisite detail alive stilled waiting silent
animate breathe illuminate turn the rusty gears wind the clock
alternating currents push zero pull rise level fall accelerate
pivot turn tangents of rest inflections
oars a boat receiver transmission
copper wire & air release the signal like icarus to sky
earth surface invisible tracks
1906 triode tube (last voice)
sensitive receiver ::: electromagnetic waves
ocean of chatter information signals beats sound
modulate frequencies cathode ray relay amplify
resonate signal expansion dial tune voice
spider silk taut web spinning affixed to slender stalk
root stem leaves flowerhead
culm (blade & sheath) inflorescent splendor

not

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

ice

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

echo

architecture of flows
chain web sparse or dense
multi routed multi threaded
brilliance resilience resplendent
abundance complexity
iron glass & noise
weft & warp

4 string landscape
infinite between
bendable tonality
fretless beast
gravitational pulls
orbit & deviation
delay / echo tape chance
degrees of freedom
boundedness taut net
no map palette arcs
across found sound canvas
spill pour grid

night crow no time graffiti angel
icarus ghost bird
radio pluto
washington avenue
bridge subway warehouse
symphony of metal
concrete & glass
blades grass
blades accordion
sheet music
sheet metal

clump

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

projections

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

books

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

warp4

architecture of flows
chain web sparse or dense
multi routed multi threaded
brilliance resilience resplendent
abundance complexity
iron glass & noise
weft & warp

4 string landscape
infinite between
bendable tonality
fretless beast
gravitational pulls
orbit & deviation
delay / echo tape chance
degrees of freedom
boundedness taut net
no map palette arcs
across found sound canvas
spill pour grid

night crow no time graffiti angel
icarus ghost bird
radio pluto
washington avenue
bridge subway warehouse
symphony of metal
concrete & glass
blades grass
blades accordion
sheet music
sheet metal

codes

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

down

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

prairie

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

rapunzel

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

last

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

others

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

lost

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

&

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

layers

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

tables

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

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