Hi.

I’m Victoria, and this site mostly has my sewing projects and science writing, with a sprinkling of older poetry & etc.

I’m a prairie kid, parent of two, celiac, and like lane swimming. I love to research. I did my undergrad in physics & English with a math minor. I’m now doing a Master’s in economics.

A note about the blog title: in math and physics, the prefix eigen means one's own. It comes from the german, but mostly I always liked thinking about a particle's eigenvalues, and thought I might apply the same thought to my excursions.

Maenad

Maenad

Victoria Martinez
Poetry, Aliud
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Let me be as maenad; I believe in this, most holy of partingLet us weave our hair with ivy; We can believe in flowering Let them strike rocks with thyrsus; Believe you me in water Let the streams be milk and honey; A belief in this, nourisher Let the wolf cubs come; We need not fear fires, believe me Let the mad women roam; Hands break flesh, every army The maenad, mad women of Baccus, wine-living harpies We believe in the Delphic virgins; Let us dance in threes, Millions, hundreds, any, always, all, infinite, on mountaintops. Let us be Bassarid, Maenad, ecstasy-hunters. Let us be this.

This poem first appeared in the inaugural edition of Pine + Basil literary journal.

 

Lagrangian

Lagrangian
Understanding Magnetite: More Complex Than Anyone Thought

Understanding Magnetite: More Complex Than Anyone Thought