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Sincere
“I don’t know what poetry is, but a poem’s an obituary trying to be a prayer.”
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Dress for Success
“they'd lost themselves to being lost / in wanting to be what they're not: music.”
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Admission is free
“Do you ever feel the only way to be happy is to be someone else?”
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The eulogy I didn’t give (XIII)
“Good parents make dinner.”
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Scratch the paint off most Americans and you’ll find an immigrant underneath
“America is the idea that America is an embrace”
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Almost
a short love poem I dearly love
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A Family Matter
there are gaps we’ll never fill
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March here is more of a run
The truth is I'll tie daffodils to my penis one morning / and bring spring to my wife in bed.
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Free Event: Reading & Live Q&A with Bob Hicok
Hear Bob read new poems and answer your questions alongside Leigh Chadwick
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Fire
Is your solitude crushing?
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Samples of the day
I wish I knew how to dream of people.
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Water Look Away
A few poems from my favorite poetry collection of 2023
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