Futuring

Michael Sikkema

BlazeVOX [books] Buffalo, New York

Futuring by Michael Sikkema Copyright 2008 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Book design by Geoffrey Gatza First Edition ISBN: 1-934289-74-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-934289-74-7 Library of Congress Control Number : 2008932195 BlazeVOX [books] 14 Tremaine Ave Kenmore, NY 14217 Editor@blazevox.org

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A Calendar for Hazel

during twin birches

during machines before the river time during unspoken before division gift

before snow and blue windows after police raid after declaration before box house

before walking Manistee after closet bedroom during innocence

after our voices in your hair

before deciding outside

during migration, state lines after panic

after the conventional version

after hospital tubes during the funny blood one

Tucked Deeply into the Wild West Show

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the insects are larger and more animated Good Wallace their

machinist has the most brilliant meadow

under his shirt

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memory-shaped she naw naws shiver and track the 2 am noon becoming flight in every vein and tunnel fast sun locked as ever unthinking

acoustic panels piled around antique block windows frontal hammer and snare brush raped down to the military place names in everyday English in Africa or space

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having imagined geography as plot device through the footage of bees and fault lines she asks him to undress the sperm exits his body at thirty miles an hour

proposed wave system of the polls magnetic shift running through absurd plus and minus signs of species and microclimates

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a certain number of slaves are kept for sport and fancy hidden in the acoustics our bride has fashioned a bamboo parachute a wager royal from seed

no target here the girl wakes with whole excited sentences a special cloth to keep in a locker you want to say choking or become eyes everywhere

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the men smash the ice-wifes head to cool their beer hair grows three or more inches of whiter teeth one spray for all three

a philosophy of milk would get us further into these dirt fists then fell in love with mechanics itself

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whir and click at six cursing natural follow children through morning preconscious half hard this bodys weight through codes and force

the window bright circles of shorn branches after ice

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A Second Calendar for Hazel

after the damage isnt singing

during the burning skin one

before the spring memory of false winter after the rips in braided space during the salt flats, redwoods, swamp after ripped birches

during fuckable sunshine during police raid during the river time

during the distance animal itself during the hospital during the rust

after the hammer flowers during the box house before the gutted does bright insides the floorboards, the shock root during our voices in your hair

before the questions before the switch walls and lenses after false winter

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The Rosin Set

everything you see is music birch trunks diesel fields a house-shaped fire tamarack

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seeing left as a buttonhole immersion pain stitches six cuffs four named river

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suddenly implies a wider dumbness gradations of give leave trails you see or dont the truck and wall werent nowhere first

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wet door propped up in weeds and abstracts scrap doll metal motherboards the nail is to rip your skirt

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the fossil record fills in with static your rain leaves mirrors in the earth is made of time like likeness

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arrayed too fast for interruption jealous of radio and mind-reading my voice is not quite loud enough to cross so many fields you open and ring as you arrive

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only breaking what you need anything for maybe a big kitchen more like never or past know past guess and the snow well cup and suck

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