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Bob Hicok is an American poet known for his unique style and profound emotional expression. His work often explores themes of daily life, natural landscapes, and the human condition.

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Goodness Proof

Author:Bob Hicok

“I like the idea of different theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow kind, perhaps in the nook of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed anyone.”

Change Idaho Different Lives The Bronx

Author:Bob Hicok

“Rain, with patience and the greed of love to hold, will slowly erase his name and everything it touches, it always sounds like a eulogy to me, the sky trying to figure out what to say about loss, and making a mess of it like the rest of us.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Rain Mourning Eulogy Eulogies

Author:Bob Hicok

“If you come by for breakfast, I’ll pour you a bowl of thorns, so don’t. I need some time alone, like the rest of my life.”

Poetry Poem Solitude Breakfast Being Alone Thorns

Author:Bob Hicok

“My Jewish problem is figuring out why America in 2016 has a dab of 1930s German Fascism to it-- people at political rallies yelling crap about the Jews.”

America Poetry Poem Fascism Anti Semitism Jews Antisemitism 2016 Jewish People Political Rallies

Author:Bob Hicok

“The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.”

Knows Stills Machines Ears Grieving Answering Machines

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“I love how intimate I've become with failure.”

Intimate

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“I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.”

Fall Air Sky Mouths Snow Knees Get Back Somewhere Else

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“My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.”

Men Believe Heart Heaven My Heart Temperature

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“Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever”

Want Hands Mistake Forever Dying Somewhere Else Without You You Again

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“Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.”

Writing Ass

Author:Bob Hicok

About the Author

Born: 1960
Known for: Poet
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