Let us all be from somewhere.

“I like the idea of different theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass, a Bronx where people talk like violets smell. Perhaps I…

— bob hicok

“ Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of my palms…

— Bob Hicok

“i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.”

— Bob Hicok

“I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift…

— Bob Hicok

“When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.”

— Bob Hicok

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere…

— Bob Hicok

Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again.…

— Bob Hicok

“You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays…

— Bob Hicok

I love how intimate I've become with failure.

— Bob Hicok

“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write poems I…

— Bob Hicok

“My life the only thing that has been with me my whole life”

— Bob Hicok

Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

— Bob Hicok

“In other languages, you are beautiful- mort, muerto- I wish I spoke moon, I wish the bottom of the ocean were sitting in that…

— Bob Hicok

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

— Bob Hicok

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

— Bob Hicok