Bob Hicok is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Sex & Love &, Hold, and Red Rover, Red Rover (Copper Canyon Press, 2021). Hicok received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, as well as eight Pushcart Prizes. He is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech.

Five Poems

by Bob Hicok

Ode to the Road Through

When I spend them, I don’t know
the oil from the porn dollars,
the lobbyist’s cash
from the senator’s stash
that’s seeped down
from his campaign to Citgo
and me and some cigs
I won’t smoke but worship
on the dash a few hundred miles
across America. The nub of a sawed-off
sticks out from under the counter

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