Spoke the Dark Matter
Spoke the Dark Matter by Michelle Whittaker, published by Sundress Publications on August 27, 2024, is a 92-page exploration of the speaker’s Jamaican American heritage, intertwined with personal struggles related to illness, healthcare, and romantic relationships. This work delves into the complexities of decision-making and the challenges faced in hindsight, prompting readers to reflect on the costs of submitting to injustice and the ways in which we endure.
In this collection, Whittaker examines themes of resilience and the interconnectedness of choices with economic hardships. The poetry presents a haunting perspective on the “quiet surge of dystopia,” inviting readers to navigate through various ecologies—divine, natural, emotional, and disrupted. Spoke the Dark Matter offers an intimate look at the speaker’s journey, encouraging contemplation of the broader implications of personal and societal struggles.
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Michelle Whittaker’s Spoke the Dark Matter is an intimately carved, haunting window into the speaker’s Jamaican American heritage and her struggles with illness, healthcare, and romantic relationships. Examining decisions and challenges, in hindsight, Whittaker invites us to ask our future selves: How much does quietly submitting to injustice cost? How do we endure? How do we reconnect with resilience? Spoke the Dark Matter examines and redraws a “quiet surge of dystopia,” considering how the choices we make are so often entangled with our economic hardships. Whittaker’s collection is a quest through the divine, natural, emotional, and disrupted ecologies.
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