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.

When Things That Never Happen Happen

by Bob Hicok

She saw a fox. I was driving
and saw a road. As soon as I could,
I pulled over and kissed her eyes.
She closed them when I did. I told her
Keep them open. She tried, but her reflex
was to close her eyes and see the fox again.

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