Daniela Olszewska: Sleeping Machine
Sleeping Machine
Here I am in my bedskin.
It's so holiday-hung.
There's no need to wrap me
further. We've a good method
Going for redecoration. Just
maneuver the stray deer
bone back up my bow leg,
apply bell ointment, then finish
with southeastern Polish salts.
There's these cubes under
my pillow. Please mercy-melt
them with your bright Noel noise.
Sleeping Machine
Camouflaged in rifle rut,
we are patriotic
with intermediate mouths.
I still get electrocuted
Half past midnights.
Often, there are small
ways to be imaginary, such
as: pretending you're a clone
of my country or a double-
mule-punk connected
to the Green Prop Channel
that plays over our heads.
Sleeping Machine
I fixed a fossil cake
for the science casket.
Test me again:
we'll both see polyps
and a petite stegosaurus.
Some sudden feathers
Might make me hatch
a razor. In The Welter Journal,
your shock of scales
counted towards data-bait.
Come review time, I'll asteroid
s 12 stops ahead of schedule.
Sleeping Machine
I woke up Wide
maybe Hungovered
There were six small mirrors
And one bigger mirror.
My brain has gone
Smooth and Rubber.
Ungrooved, she moved
Herself out of my skull
In order to get a better
Look at each reflection
That made my thoughts
Smaller by comparison.
Sleeping Machine
Who cares about Appalachia
When I've stretched a mountain
Lion's top across this floor?
Another dead relative looking
Younger in his favorite
Coat. I obituary well. Scan
My Prophecy for Shifts
And Gold flecks. We'll Pretend
Loss is Seductive. Dissolved
Your Last vinyl in this glass
Of NightWater with No preacher
Or handbook to heed attention.
Daniela Olszewska is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, 2013), and Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013). With Carol Guess, she is the co-author of How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Human-Ghost Hybrid Project(Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming). Her website is: http://www.danielaolszewska.com
