Bob Hicok Is Everywhere
- Bob Hicok Is Everywhere
He must writewhen he’s bathing,while he shovelssnow or sows grass seed.He must have duct tapeda legal pad to his Toromulcher/mower.I bet he scribblesin the dirt at his son’slittle league games,in the marginsof his ATM receipts.At the Super Targetover by the frozen pizzas,I found a little poemwritten on a discarded matchstick.It was a nicepoem about fire,the dirt of our lives.Was it his poem?I was jealouswhen I found outhe neither botheredto count syllablesnor tracked the prodigiousslather of his publications.It’s all veryintimidating, findinghim in every magazineat every turn.—
He’s the Isaac Asimov of poetry.Even a dead Charles Bukowski can’t keep up. [End Page 28]
Michael Catherwood is a lecturer in English at Creighton University. He is the author of Dare (2006). His second book of poems, If You Could Turn Around Quickly, was published during the summer of 2016, and his third book, Projector, will be published in 2017. He has recently published work in The Common, Plainsongs, New Plains Review, and Louisiana Literature. He has poems forthcoming in Bluestem, Measure, and The Backwaters Press—Twentieth Anniversary Anthology. He lives in Omaha.
