MICHAEL SIKKEMA

(This feature is part of TRUCK’s Theme Issue on the List or Catalog Poem. You can go HERE for an Index of the Participating Poets.)

Pickerel Color List

Lavender Floral Lavender Web:

bruised playground committee goes

ass up in royal fashion.  Palm eyes

for indirect sun, years 4-10, a pulse

of it. Nothing out. The boy walks

around close talking, repeating

GRAPE APE.

PORTRAIT KU Crimson:

 a 3 ft big box letter

blink-blink-blink-blink

a fortune in coffee

La Salle or India algae ghouls

swallow & spit minnow darts

reed tangle & machine sound

Electric Catalina Yonder

 a hover structure sexual

even solo sometimes piled

in trains of 3-4 surface

body tension bait mass stir

Big dip o’ruby not brick

I hear my blood again

a float bottom w/ fish glint

cardinal rip or traffic

Cadmium Cal Poly

hard berries of the not

yet some lamb’s ear

distant reports

rifles and divorce

come to mind

Canary Corn or Chrome

all the reasons that

car’s for sale

Laser Lemon lily

butter petaled

 to a sci fi tongue

Persian Resolution pocket

marshy plastic egg half

more sap more sea

less UFO bully fully 

oak moraine

over-washed forest: ground grows wings

fade to zomp 

burdock ears little

machine faced fella

drags a segmented

fucker home to eat

Stizza meets Sunglow

blood up poplars on a cream

hike.  217 miles of road

sign can’t turn her off. Epicenter

overlap,  dirty fist of crayon

slutty sun, finch, rod,

and Walking-Away-World

sadly Lincoln nipple deep in the skirt

grass ambience of elm wheeze a puffy

clump of nomenclature rich as fuck

in the cricket synth effect