Alexis Orgera

 

 

 

Machine Dreams

 

Schematics rebuilt
with spare parts—
demolish, re-

draw naked sky
out of an eroding
heap, the dirge

for home: X’s & arrows,
a decayed calendar,
lead-marked

mineshafts,
griddle sizzling
in the sun.

Turbine gears
caress the face
of fritz, milk-thistle

blue against last light,
electric night,
the whoosh

of discarded air.
It’s all sensory
deprivation

in here, now
to re-animate
some trash.

 

 

Alexis Orgera is a writer, freelance editor, doodler, publisher, and plant person living in North Carolina. She's the author of two poetry collections, How Like Foreign Objects and Dust Jacket, and a forthcoming memoir-in-fragments, Head Case: My Father, Alzheimer's & Other Brainstorms (Kore Press, 2021). Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Conduit, Diode, Hotel Amerika, Love's Executive Order, Passages North, and Third Coast. More at www.alexisorgera.com/.