The Speed of Moss thus ravels through friable skeins of thread rapidly designed through a weaving of gestation. pregnancy. While speed rules (dromology) the weakness of the jouissance Kristeva associates with our ‘mother tongue’ (the presymbolic) give the poems a subservisely, slow visibility. Indeed, the recoil from the corruptions of patriarchal, technophallic, cosmopolitanauti, militaristic and consumer cultures are difficult to follow. But in the discernments of the sensory and the embodied - a t/here inhabited by both/and as the changing woman mother and fetus; the infant and the mother, offers an alternative sui genera instead.