topology

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mctavish

headlights

  • 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

flight

  • 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

downward

  • 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

net

  • 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

of

  • 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

cycle

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

very

  • 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

motel

  • 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

abandoned

  • 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

ghost

  • trace erosion fragment shadow window time
  • season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
  • blueprint blue light paper pressing
  • chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
  • vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
  • weight rhizome tent matrix building frame
  • dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
  • for each map filter fold list railway table
  • (off || on 0 || 1)
  • repairman rider passenger lone bird
  • grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
  • thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

subject

  • 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

missing

  • 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

afternoon

  • 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

song

  • 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

trace

  • trace erosion fragment shadow window time
  • season shifted local sundial noon-line fragment
  • blueprint blue light paper pressing
  • chronometer opacity odometer silent breath grass blade whisper
  • vapor ghost carbon cycle chlorophyll bone detrital join uptake
  • weight rhizome tent matrix building frame
  • dyke blade flame night graffiti gesture neon brandish flight
  • for each map filter fold list railway table
  • (off || on 0 || 1)
  • repairman rider passenger lone bird
  • grass blade dyke (our hero zero rider ze)
  • thatch radio signal static dial clock pulse receiver

hero

  • 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 !

notes

  • 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

on

  • 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

sudden

  • 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

+

  • 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

texaco

  • 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

&

  • 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

perilous

  • 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

tonal

  • 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

emergence

  • 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

flame

  • 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

once

  • 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

system

  • 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

currency

  • 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

forest

  • 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

sandwich

  • 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

short

  • 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

bones

  • 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

&.

  • 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

breaking

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

food

  • 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

curved

  • 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 !

measure

  • 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

place

  • 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

fuse

  • 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

knot

  • 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

hollow

  • 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

:::

  • 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

number

  • 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

cafe

  • 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

an

  • 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

message

  • 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

latch

  • 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

light

  • 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