Alexis Orgera
The Good Fight
Rules about my weapons: no guns
near the hunting dogs, no impaling
sunsets. Few artists paintball light this way,
mixing the regulation of fallow & shadow.
Turner, with his lo-def over-exposure like a perfect
blowjob. Bored gods tango with perception.
I wonder how many times I’ll etch myself
into aluminum foil before I begin to imagine
my own combustion. I’m having a piece
of furniture made. We met for drinks.
He showed me plans. I fell in love
with the spare force of a tree planed just for me,
like a child given her first wooden sword,
a deception that both wields & concedes power.
Alexis Orgera is the author of two poetry books, How Like Foreign Objects and Dust Jacket and several chapbooks. Her poems, essays, interviews, and reviews can be found online and in print in Another Chicago Magazine, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Forklift Ohio, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, H_ngm_n, The Journal, jubilat, Lumen Magazine, Memorious, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, Tarpaulin Sky, Typo, and elsewhere. She is the co-publisher of Penny Candy Books with poet Chad Reynolds.
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