topology

sketch ::: 1706410567929

mctavish

mend

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

whole

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

paper

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

billiard

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

shift

volcanic eruptions colossal explosive summer of night
cloud of ash eternal winter sky
sublime vastness
clap of thunder
dark sky & rim of light

die cast astronomies astrologers oracles neural net forecast
summary synthesis archive copy
deductions cloudy inference pale sky dusty glass
cloud forest mist

chlorophyll inception resinous extension
oxygen production carbon-bound reduction
transfer bury sequestrate
atmospheric storage
soil archive biomass
sky writes to earth
clouds turn to grass
glass leaf snail fish
bone & soil & log

linear regression
inversion inflection
rollercoaster shift
velocity force change
approach zero
axis of gone the axe

dust bowl prairie loss

turnstile

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

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

permeate

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

again

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

sourcetheory

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

of

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

circus

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

nonlinear

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

connection

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

resonating

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

on

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

echo

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

concrete

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

shredded

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

fire

field notes double reed hollow log
breaking hard ground
thatch root millennia ruptured disrupted
buffalo fire & the fire tenders
lace boots & => functions of lists reduce / fold filter map
irretrievable calculation distillation contours
physics of oars physics of rope & gears
physics of taut independence bound inter dependence
cycling time flow graph calculus of change & motion
tangents & intersections flux weather elements wind
there exists an x a y a maybe just nothing
suppose this
not silence exactly

particles of speech particles of sound particles of exchange
molecular transfer diagrams schema ontologies syntax relations
punctuations blank space lines unfolding hollow tunnel echo static dial
encode translate transform (re)cover uncover reverse
verb => noun => past tense
neural net language drip radio wave resilience
co2 => biomass => soil
the deep & tangled dark sea horizon wind sail blades of grass
sky to earth to text texture textile

P

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

turn

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

for

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

harmonics

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

footnotes

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

spew

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

place

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

day

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

tiny

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

moth

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

rider

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

voice

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

brown

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

paper

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

consumed

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

leaf

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

back

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

air

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

rest

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

radio

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

declare

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

orbit

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

sound

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

the

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

polyphony

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

these

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

one

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

&

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

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