1.
Mid-calculation
James Clerk Maxwell telescope
Mauna Kea central Pacific 155d 25m 19d 45mN
before first light
pen pausing over as if zenga
thread of black ink on white page
standing lying sitting walking
treading softly
G34.3+0.15 makes an appearance
molecular line observations
reveal a hot optically thick slab of gas
(Heaton, Little & Bishop 1987)
a hierarchy of cloud components
& low resolution maps
delineate an extended diameter halo
surrounding a smaller core
two hands drawn back
turning of waist and legs
centre of gravity shifts
reading Beckett (what where 1983)
in the present as were I still
the slow moon sinking
Rexroth whispering
higher resolution observations
show a warm compact core of high density
south west of this
an ultracompact HII region
powered by a highly luminous O star(s)
night passes
data stacks up
through the infinitesimal noise
a pin-prick signal is identified
ten thousand million million miles
to the moment of this mark
outside no snow falls
under the ocean of stars
red-shifted absorption in the rotational spectra
suggest the halo is cool
& collapsing towards the core
inner & outer satellite splittings
quadrupole moments
nitrogen nuclei within an electron field
primary calibrator passband bootstrap flux
for Matsuo it is winter
without journey
broken house river Sumida
barely time to sweep away the cobwebs
spring mist to rise over the fields
longing to be on the road again
Beckett says form is fatal
reach beyond
Ginsberg taught me to speak
Snyder to be silent
between the three
ordinary voice
beginner’s mind
a circumspect conversation falls here
where
searching
for peak emission shift with velocity over hyperfine components
find none
& then sun’s rise.
2.
Roko quietly sitting
practice of life
Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m telescope
among manuscripts
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anchoring offshore
Suwa-no-se latitude 29d 36m
among the ten islands
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among manuscripts red grapefruit #4288 sunrise
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a small diesel freighter 250 tons
rainsqualls
green cliffs
seabirds
anchored beyond the reef edge
in drift & swell
the weather is breezy
the sun hot
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hot and quiet 1
hot and quiet 2
cold and quiet
hot core
expanding doughnut
molecular flow
spectral line catalogue JPL 80 – 23 cal tech
one morning in the second week
the mind wakes
wu-shih (no fuss)
** searchable tags in the records are the following
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** output terminated due to inattention
not seen blended not seen 5.81E+16
no data not seen 2.49E+13 not seen uncertain not seen
the sea teaches patience
become one with the other
intuition
stillness
let the fish choose you
& in Kyoto
at three a.m. lights go on
ten watt bulbs tacked under the beams
a building lit for centuries by oil lamps
unsui drift like clouds flow like water
sodo in session
the hawk the swoop and the hare are one
among manuscripts
an unidentified line
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unidentified line 45 379
Herzberg heading for Saskatoon
hitchhiked here long valley of the Skagit
old cars parked in the weeds
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who can straighten water.
3.
f77 –o test
chemcses07.for odescses.for cgear230.for
reset h0 = E-20
eps = E+2 ran fast changed output
still wrong
setting y0(i) = zero initially
failure to run (kflag = -3, segmentation fault)
uround = E-15
eps = E-6
and y0(i) still zero
now we get something sensible
questioned before first light
barely time to sweep away the cobwebs
left Edo
two years on the road
travelling north
into unexplored territory
the narrow road
consider the displacement
NH3 peak emission offset slightly to the north
of an axis of symmetry
through the apex of the adjacent cometary UCHII region
coincident with peak 450 micron dust emission
in contrast
peak CH3CN emission is displaced
2 arcseconds north west of the NH3 peak
an offset greater than positional error on either map
the frame is Cartesian
already a hole in the net
through which the fish may
or may not fall
be briefly caught
through which disorder which is order comes leaping
until the time came, with break of day but the clouds (1976)
hitching the coast road
practice of life
sublimation temperatures are likely too close
& ice composition too complex
in spite of CH3CN having the larger dipole moment
for significant distinctions on the observed scale to arise
no downstream daughter species if both are evaporates
perhaps photochemical processing of evaporated NH3
within the gas phase
at the margins of the hot core
but this model neither requires nor precludes a real displacement
meaning differs
climbing the steep ridge below Shuksan
hour to hour
specific meaning at a given moment
I of it/it of me
a meaning of/to/for I/me
to walk the roads
always looking asking something local albeit provisional
crossing & re-crossing the passes
drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
just enough to get by on
k(j) = fj*((temp/300)**alfa)*earg(-beta/temp)
go to 10
pg = (2.0e16/rout)**0.86
ct = – 1.644*pg
k(j) = fj*exp(ct)
go to 10
k(j) = fj*zeta
continue
the close proximity to newly formed stars
UCHCs generally
OB stars
suggests an impinging far ultraviolet field
interacts with dense neutral evaporates
grain mantle ices (Charnely, Tielens & Millar)
UCHC diameter ~10(17)cm
margin depth ~10(15)cm
defined by a cumulative Av limit ~ 10 mag
where Av = 5.3 x 10(-22)N(H2) (Storzer, Stutzki & Sternberg)
visible through the mist in the distance
brilliantly white with snow
Sora bringing water and firewood
become Sogo
on the day we put on clean summer clothes
Japhy cross-legged on a straw mat with spectacles on
book on lap
little tin teapot
porcelain cup steaming at his side
translating cold mountain
within the clouds
close to newly formed stars
a clumpy distribution of gas & dust
hence (Storzer et al)
spherical versus plane-parallel PDRs
0.05 to 0.005parsec
the structure within as yet unresolved
first without words Beckett knawing
a hint
fleeting
tenuous
at the edge of intelligibility
at the point of questioning
where the plumb-line drops
3.7kpc
at the limit barely detectable
down valley a smoke haze
assuming continuous evaporation of ices
at rates comparable with their subsequent photodissociation
a derivation of analytical expressions
rate coefficients having the form
k = Cce[-aAv – bAv(2)] s(-1)
a & b are extinction parameters
functions of grain scattering properties
& photoreaction cross-sections
Roberge (1991)
friday morning with snow coming in
& storms all across the north Cascades
elegant patterns in the spectra
lines declaring nature’s order
atomic composition structure properties
all defined by analysis of colour
Herzberg with a 20 meter tube
internal mirrors giving 250 traversals
an absorbing path of 5km
through cooled compressed gaseous hydrogen
a sunny windy day lapping the logs
the river swollen to the brim
spillover words.
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Duncan MacKay
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