Dark Matter explores the thin line between lust and destruction, revealing a blasted spectrum where thirsty raindrops cause havoc between wet sheets, and from the windows view young girls are hanging by rope from the mango tree; from vast twisted tempests, where Miranda carries Caliban's spawn, to the moist incubator of a breathless baby on the very edge of life, Amy Neilson Smith'sDark Matter work burrows into the bones of what is so viscerally here - and what is so nearly not.It's the after taste of life's losses, all sewn together with a lifeline of light. Dark Mater Amy Neilson Smith's poetry is lively work, displaying an exuberant love of words that will leave the reader eager for more - an engaging talent. Agnes Meadows, Poet/ Writer, Loose Muse - Morgan's Eye Press Amy's work is the thorn and the petals, the whole complicated rose.