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Today's poem is "A Marxist interpretation of rivers"

from Conduit

Bob Hicok, the author of collections of fiction (Between Camelots; Into the Wilderness), poetry (Sex & Love &; Love poem) and essays (The Artist's Torah) was born and raised in the great city of Philadelphia, home of America's first library, first art museum, first public school, and first zoo, along with David's very first stories and poems, though those early efforts went on to become (deservedly) less famous than, for example, the zoo. Since those days he's lived in Ohio, Wisconsin, Philadelphia again, New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Ohio again, picking up some education (formal and otherwise) along the way, and he now lives very happily in Washington, DC.

Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
August 1, 2016:   "Love poem" "The woman I love..."
April 19, 2016:   "I, hermit" "People scare me — most people and most..."
May 12, 2014:   "The life-and-death world of carpentry" "So much sawdust on my glasses, I stare at the wind..."
May 13, 2013:   "Elegy with lies" "This lost person I loved. Loved for a hundred years...."
March 29, 2012:   "My Francis Bacon essay" "Francis Bacon's people have bacon faces. I want to heat them..."
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" "Poor starling in the B concourse of Logan Airport. You do not..."
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" "'You broke my kneecaps' makes more sense..."
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" "Kyle spiffed stiffs..."
August 25, 2009:   "Certainly Uncertain: a love of tone poem" "Here is the place I am thinking..."
July 4, 2009:   "Deeply Impersonal" "This is a good way to take life in. The eyes...."
May 25, 2009:   "Moving day" "When it's time, the hotels of Ardmore no longer interesting..."
February 16, 2009:   "Palsy" "Ignoring the obvious is most of manners...."
July 2, 2008:   "In a time of biblical references" "I've fallen behind. I have in fact..."
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" "A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep..."
December 20, 2007:   "A confluence of processes" "It was a kind of battery, the Earth..."
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" " The man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died...."
June 19, 2006:   "Love of Sport" " In the woods, place of tall and green, place of losing..."
June 15, 2006:   "Fall" " Trees and the white room filling with the resistance..."
March 21, 2006:   "Weather Report" " Cats are new to me is why I call them..."
June 21, 2005:  "The Personal Touch" "I have fifteen cloud stamps, it says on the back..."
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" "I introduced John Adams to the Pacific..."
March 8, 2004:  "Building a painting a home" "If I built a barn I'd build it right into the sky..."
February 17, 2004:  "Truth About Love" "I apologize for not being Gandhi or Tom..."
February 16, 2004:  "Shopping at the ocean" "Trying to save the bug she killed the bug..."
December 24, 2002:  "By their works" "Who cleaned up the Last Supper?..."
August 29, 2002:  "Sorting the Entanglements" "In my will the basement goes to the spiders...."
July 14, 2002:  "Whither Thou Goest" "Fish can have mad cow disease and I have a problem / with that...."

Books by Bob Hicok:

Other poems on the web by Bob Hicok:
Eleven poems
Three poems
Nine poems
Three poems
Three poems
Six poems
"The ongoing"
Two poems
"Poem to the life force "
"Having Intended to Merely Pick on an Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry"
"Straightforward"
"In the Loop"
"A poem of place"
"Goodbye"
"As I Was Saying"
"Hard work is its own reward"
"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem"
"Confessions of a Nature Lover"
Five poems
Two poems
Thirteen poems
"A History of Origami"
Twenty-four poems
"Wistful sounds like a brand of air freshener"
Four poems
Five poems
"The map maker's faith"
"the dream"
"my life with a gardener"
"a nature film"
Nine poems
"Root root root for the home team"
"Slow going"
"Repast and future"
"My Career as a Director"
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Bedtime Story"
"Jornando del Muerto"
"Twins"
Eight poems
Eight poems
"Alzeimer's"
"The Quiet Americans"
"Only somewhat like a carousel"
"Ink"

Bob Hicok according to Wikipedia.

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Other poems by Conduit in Verse Daily:
November 15, 2016:   "Ian's House" by James Haug
September 30 2015:   "Radiant Reflection" by Matt Hart
March 20, 2015:   "Fourth Ballad from the Labyrinth" by Paula Cisewski
March 18, 2015:   "Wonderful" by David Welch
March 17, 2015:   "My Life as a Hummer" by Terrance Hayes
July 29, 2013:   "Ha Ha Unicorns" by Eileen G'Sell
July 25, 2013:   "This World" by Oni Buchanan
July 23, 2013:   "It's Here In The" by Russell Atkins
July 22, 2013:   "The Distant Future" by C.J. Sage
August 16, 2012:   "Landscape with Rain and Glass" by Terence Winch
August 8, 2012:   "The Ocean" by Dorothea Lasky
August 7, 2012:   "Bowlful of Teeth" by John Beer
August 6, 2012:   "The Platitudes" by Terence Winch
October 24, 2011:   "North of North" by Bob Hicok
October 22, 2011:   "Oracle" by Dean Young
October 20, 2011:   "What the Mapmaker Knows" by Mary Jo Bang
October 19, 2011:   "Anthem" by Michael Robins
October 18, 2011:   "For Soren" by Matt Hart
October 18, 2010:   "Penny Pincher Leaves Millions" by Mark Bibbins
October 17, 2010:   "That Kind of Party" by Patrick Swaney
October 15, 2010:   "Ode to Autumn" by Susan Browne
May 30, 2009:   "The Terrible Poem" by Dara Wier
May 28, 2009:   "The Match" by Carley Moore
May 26, 2009:   "asunder" by Craig Arnold
May 25, 2009:   "Moving day" by Bob Hicok
May 25, 2008:   "The Party by the Lake" by Kevin Prufer
May 22, 2008:   "[I Saw My Face on the Dull Head]" by Adam Clay
May 19, 2008:   "Saint of Perpetual Sorrow" by James Meetze
April 27, 2008:   "The Cetacean Society" by Noelle Kocot
April 26, 2008:   "Kingdom Come At Once" by Travis Brown
April 25, 2008:   "Baby Epic" by Tanya Larkin

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