Children’s Story


I was thinking

the insides

of trees when

your singing

changed

the book in

the catfish

the catfish in

the book

sang trees inside

thinking I

I catfish

it all sort of glowed

at the edges

like taxes and

The Book of the Leftover Moon


Michael Sikkema is a poet, vispoet, amateur mycologist, bad collagist, and even worse drummer. He lives and works in West Michigan, surrounded by Great Lakes and scary religious beliefs. He has a chapbook, entitled Watch for Deer, forthcoming from Cul-de-Sac of Blood.