topology

sketch ::: 1706410608115

mctavish

streets

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

the

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

shadow

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

cage

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

dream

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

vacant

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

circle

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

domain

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

paths

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

long

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

cricket

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

translate

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 !

absence

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

theory of sparse matrix
an absence
exponential decline
crash .

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

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

detector

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

digital

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

lattice

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

probabilistic

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

fishers

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

script

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

electron

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

rises

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

range

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

ecology

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

helm

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

dissonant

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

route

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

invisible

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

ether

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 !

rhizome

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 !

its

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

wave

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

ruptured

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

need

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

collapse

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

railway

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

of

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

imprint

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

heat

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

transects

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

sky

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

circus

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

clickbait

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

books

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

recipe

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

deep

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

an

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

rider

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

object

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