Matthew strips language to the root of interaction, teasing the reader into slowing down and then wondering if haste was intended.  Each word is carefully placed to portray the actuality of experience in snippets of stories and carvings of images.

Example:

Our place

orbits

itself / it

packs the

continent / & we

feral in.

                  Citizens of

that

rust / deaf,

repeating

out / to

kept

glares /

is it

loose / suns

tilt

buildings

to caves / or

widen /

throats

watching

maul.

-from Alligators