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/.