Prose Poetry by Stephen Guy Mallett
Mineral Waste
You said the amygdala-shaped part of what you expect of it is. The dots of what they are on the grid of what they will be froze into one into what you called the infinity of the crystal item always into the immobility of a point of view. Sawtooth National Forest trail 680 Gunsight Lake southeast of Chinese Wall ID 11238 feet above sea level north of line parent Calkins Peak White Cloud Mountain. Jade cut from the mountain is measured in degrees Kelvin as jade is priced for its warmth. You said he trashed the place. Shortcuts for the machinic here of what we are now and erosion and less a Melusine and Raymondin at Partenay bas-relief than I was in the heat of it. Still-life with B.T.H. CS7A silicon crystal. Still-life with no external power source. Still-life with variable condenser from [one position] to [the other] in order to cover the whole wavelength range. Still-life with series resistance equivalent to the reflected crystal load resistance; still-life with the capacitance of the aerial to earth and the aerial's effective series resistance. Still-life with a number of ex-Government surplus units. Still-life with 85 turns of 24 S.W.G. double cotton covered wire tapped at [indeterminate] turns from the earth end; the earth lead-in wire to the bolt; the [other end] of the lead-in to the earth connection on the receiver. Still-life with a .0005 mfd. variable capacitor as the tuner (soldered across the stator terminals of two-gang variable capacitor). Still-life without Germanium crystal diode (Sylvania type 1N34 (Allied 7-219)); Germanium minimum voltage is approx. 0.3 V and Silicon is 0.6 V and [a compound of silicon carbide] is 3 V (the high [silicon carbide] voltage is the reason why a [bias battery] is {necessary} to move the threshold down so that the weak RF signal voltages can be {detected}) (cf. a still-life with a filament rheostat of approx. 8 ohms max. will be required if a valve takes 5 volt and .65 amp.). Still-life with two coats of shellac. {Slowly} dragging the cat-whisker spring over the B.T.H. CS7A silicon crystal's surface with the tuning slide centred on the coil. Can't hear shit as the wind verbs.