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.

Sex & Love &

by Bob Hicok

1.

A scavenger
has the advantage
of being as ugly
as we expect.

The time I lost
my erection
I was filled
with an image
of myself
as a jackal
bent over you
smelling
like hyacinth.
People on couch
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