breakfast machine

by Angel T. Dionne

Artist Statement:

Breakfast Machine is a surrealist assemblage of hastily drawn elements and text. The "machine" transforms sound into water, citrus into blood, and reduces the human body to an automaton. It is a commentary on how we often move through the motions. In the age of rapidly advancing AI, how do we distinguish the human from the machine? Is our appetite for automation becoming our downfall?

Breakfast Machine (2025)

my blood supply is half-moon citrus

filtered through a gnat

teeth sustain my vital organ: a leaking

sick valve

this gnawing trumpet

bugles

coalesces

and seeps

a broken vessel

overflows.

Photo of Angel T. Dionne

BIO: Angel T. Dionne is a surrealist writer and professor at the University of Moncton's Edmundston campus. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Pretoria. She is the author of Garden-Body. (Radiant Press, forthcoming), Bird Ornaments (Broken Tribe Press, 2025), and Sardines (ClarionLit, 2023). Her short avant-garde film, Revival, was selected for the 2025 Heron Bay Film Festival. She takes her coffee black and her fish tinned.