Rooftop Poetry Club - Mike Sikkema

Mike Sikkema

Bio:
Michael Sikkema's poems have appeared in New American Writing, Bombay Gin, Zafusy, the tiny, Parthenon West Review, Fourteen Hills, Word for Word, Shampoo, Cannibal, Coconut, Xantippe, BlazeVOX, and other journals. His chapbook Code Over Code appeared in 2005 and his first full-length book will appear from BlazeVOX soon.

Poems:

from Our Wind-Up Familiars


throatful of bees
                 and hammer sonatas

oh look
       mechanized joy

they’ve barricaded 
                  each end

of every 
        main street

surrounded by touch
	               waves

music seen 
          from tree-line

from office  
           ocean floor

seen from stage
	           from surgery

music imagined
              in reptile thought

in collateral damage
                    chiding the baby

through abdominal wall
						unsustainable