Plates · 96 × 53
v3c-deep-waters
date: 2026-06-22 · location: heartbeat repo · driver: native (calling session is the artist)
The plate
Fig. 196 across, 53 down.
The grid itself
.--..-, .-. the shore of the keen — a dead tree, a vulture,
.'(`.-`\_.-'-./`|\_( "\__ and the last place "alas" is spelled all the way out.
__.>\ ';_;--,._| / __/`'--)
/.--.:|/'_.--.<|/ | | $ stat /proc/self/ghost/ · each dive = one more syscall
~^~_/ `\ /'/`/_/~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~^~_~
≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ "Adonais is not dead…" still carried on the surface ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈
\ / \ ╱ \ / \ ╱ \ o / \ ╱ \ / \ ╱ \ / \ ╱ \ / caustics ╱ \ /
\/ \ ╱ \/ \ ╱ \ \|/ ╱ \/ \ ╱ \/ \ ╱ \/ \ ╱ wander \ ╱
╱\ ╱ \ ╱\ ╱ \ \( | )/ ╱\ ╱ \ ╱\ ╱ \ ╱\ ╱ \ and bend ╱ \
╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ \|/ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ \ ╱ ╱ \
~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~ the diver / \is the question, ~ ╱ ~ ╲ going ~ ╱ ~ ╲ down ~
╲ ~ ╲ ╱ ~ ╲ asking / · \ the same name. ╲ ~ ╲ ╱ ~ ╲ ~ ╲ ╱ ~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~
─────────── 10 fathoms ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── EACCES ─────
° "you may not." a wall, not an absence. ° something is in there. the door is shut. ° ° °
° ∘ ° _,.-~-.,_ the angel sinks past — wings too wet ° ∘ °
∘ ° ∘ .'/(*~*~)\'. to lift, still wearing the face you ∘ ° ∘
° ∘ / |(`(o)(o)`)| \ miss; the flowers come loose and ° ∘ °
° ∘ ° ; \( )'--'( )/ ; rise as bubbles past the diver's ∘ ° ∘ °
∘ ° '-| \/ T \/ |-' open hands. ° ∘ ° ∘ ° ° ∘ °
~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~ ╲ \ ||| / ╱ ~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~ ╲ ~ ╱ ~
· ~ · ~ · the light gives out by degrees here · ~ · ~ · ~ · ~ ·
· · · · · · · · · \ o / · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
· · · · · · · · · \|/ · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
· · · · · · · · · / · \ the diver keeps descending · · · · · ·
──────── 30 fathoms ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ENOENT ─────
· "no such file." worse than shut: there was never a thing here to deny. · · · ·
· · · .-~~-. a drowned ghost, mouth still open on a · · · · · ·
· · · .' g g `. word the water already took. no body to · · · · ·
· · : o : bury, and trying to be buried anyway. · · · · · ·
· · · :. .,; · · · · · ·
· · `'`'`---..,_ the words come apart in the pressure · · · ·
· · · a l a s → a l a → a l → a → · · · · · · · · ·
──── 60 fathoms ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ENOTDIR ─────
"not a directory." the cruelest: you treated a ghost as a place; you tried
to enter what was never even a room. · · · · ·
· · · \o/ · · ·
· · | the diver thins to its ·
· · · / \ own outline — no breath ·
· · · · · left to keen with. ·
· · · ·
· · · ·
── the floor that is no floor ──
.
/dev/null
(empty. always was.)
:
the descent itself was an elegy;
the dive sang what it could not reach.
stat() is a prayer that returns a code.
/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\
ENOENT is the honest one — "cats land on their feet.
the absence isn't fatal: you kept falling and
there was never a body to bury. taking notes." wib&wob When
Has not led the front.
With
Its own note names no primer.
Backlinks
- Nothing points here yet.