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A Simple Man's Inadvertent Treatise on Celibacy
The thimble suit made such noise that he wasn't allowed to his own wedding. "How was it," he asked his wife, The thimble suit made such noise that...
Southern Review, The, 01/01/09 by Bob Hicok · More from publication -
What If Language Were True?
As will sometimes happen, upon the death of the lousy father, the children "bloomed." Harold went back to school. Kathleen stopped shaking when the...
Southern Review, The, 01/01/09 by Bob Hicok · More from publication -
end of all need, The
The idea of conversation with you as you're dying is so appealing I want you to die. The openness, the end of all need to pretend. That wouldn't...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/08 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
practical tycoon, The
If! owned the Guggenheim, everyone would have to wear roller skates, the old fashioned kind that seemed to be made out of tin cans and required a...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/08 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
Beauty is only carcinoma deep
Ugly men on TV were talking about global wanning. One in particular looked like the spawn of rocks. I wrote a letter to the various Harvards and...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/08 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
IN THE FIELD OF MUSICAL DIRECTION
Looking up risible yesterday I learned ritardando. In dictionaries one word points at a gaggle of other words like tag. Meaning is a game of...
Michigan Quarterly Review, 07/01/08 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
FLAW
Hands, the fit of them, to the neck. God's making an end for the arm, murder, His, forgive me, my pronoun, my rage, if in practice I lift them ...
Michigan Quarterly Review, 07/01/08 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
First will and testament
Wrestle when I'm dead as if you're Etruscan and naked to honor me, but that's the day after tomorrow at least, you have time to learn the...
Iowa Review, 12/01/07 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
Coming to life
He was made to touch a corpse as a child. His aunt's. Mother's side. When he was very young, he'd hear that phrase-she's from your mother's...
Iowa Review, 12/01/07 by Hicok, Bob · More from publication -
A Celebration of Lasting Achievement
Southern Review, The, 09/22/07 by Bob Hicok · More from publication
