Poetry. SCATTER MATRIX unfolds like a map, grid tracing multiple possibilites of language and form. Here is a scale, and a sense of time, where the score offers discrete signatures: 3 and 4 line measures upon which words balance or pivot forward. The result is a cumulation, a sense of connection along the diagonal, spins and collisions, slow fades and vaporous dissolves. Abigail Child’s work invites productive inquiry and rewards readerly attention, to (the means of) the production of meaning, a late 20th century witness–Erica Hunt.