Element Suite

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

No Fireball

and Yes Fireball
turn the spit,
squirt this
tear-drop-shaped
space between screen
and projector
Tossed off by this friction,
I’m a tic past solution
Contact makes my legs sing
I’ll call it wingless flight

Michael Sikkema

Fifth Dialogue

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

In a boy
the voice makes
an oval frame
calls a metal three
and four into his mouth
“It’s not enough
to stop thinking”
A picture of actual
metal in actual teeth
In an oval frame
the voice makes
the boy is curled
feet up and floating
neck bent at
painful angles
The voice leans
normal as shit
to point into the frame
to point into the three
into the spiral
the boy

Michael Sikkema