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Today's poem is "Here, now, gone"

from the Southern Review

Bob Hicok's ninth book is Hold.

Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
November 7, 2018:   "Tough-guy talk" "She hugged my paper route...." Other poems by Bob Hicok in Verse Daily:
November 17, 2016:   "A Marxist interpretation of rivers" "I like money. I mean I like..."
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:
"Redundancy Is Only a Problem When It Gets Repetitious:"
"I Am Wanting"
"Sometimes we elect the mirror we deserve"
Two poems
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.

About the Southern Review:

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Editors: Jessica Faust and Cara Blue Adams

Other from the Southern Review in Verse Daily:
August 24, 2017:   Two poems by Stephen Gibson
August 22, 2017:   "Virgule" by Michael McFee
August 21, 2017:   "Where Another Lets Go" by Paul Hunter
October 28, 2015:   "Driving to Work" by A. M. Brandt
July 25, 2014:   "To the Stars through Difficulties" by Christina Olson
May 12, 2014:   "The life-and-death world of carpentry" by Bob Hicok
May 6, 2014:   "Some Math, Some Words" by Bob Hicok
May 4, 2014:   "Affirmative Action Babies" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 25, 2013:   "Confession" by Carrie Shipers
November 24, 2013:   "Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields" by John Kinsella
November 23, 2013:   "Under the Sun" by Chard deNiord
November 22, 2013:   "Alligators" by Kevin Prufer
January 11, 2013:   "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy
January 9, 2013:   "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett
January 8, 2013:   "feeder" by Beth Bachmann
November 9, 2012:   "Straw Poll" by Michael McFee
November 8, 2012:   "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey
September 24, 2012:   "Daily" by John A. Nieves
September 21, 2012:   "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski
February 19, 2012:   "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok
January 26, 2012:   "Thames Music" by William Wenthe
September 23, 2011:   "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton
September 22, 2011:   "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel
November 13, 2010:   "The Former Pirate on His Way Back to Lisbon" by Weston Cutter
May 27, 2010:   "Dead Telegram to a Dead Poet" by Bruce Cohen
March 2, 2010:   "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker
January 9, 2010:   "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang
January 8, 2010:   "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges
September 12, 2009:   "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea
September 11, 2009:   "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull
June 5, 2009:   "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Weston Cutter
June 3, 2009:   "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
June 2, 2009:   "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins
February 20, 2009:   "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 20, 2008:   "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt
August 29, 2008:   "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl
August 28, 2008:   "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008:   "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008:   "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008:   "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008:   "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008:   "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007:   "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007:   "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007:   "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007:   "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007:   "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007:   "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007:   "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006:   "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006:   "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006:   "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006:   "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006:   "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006:   "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006:   "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006:   "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004:  "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004:  "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004:  "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004:  "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004:  "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004:  "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004:  "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004:  "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004:  "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004:  "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003:  "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003:  "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003:  "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003:  "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003:  "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003:  "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003:  "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002:  "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002:  Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002:  "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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