Learning Lines
Even songbirds learn to sing
They listen to their fathers
We babble our way to syntax
We listen to our mothers
, said my mother, my first word
On Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away
Books Water Look Away by Bob Hicok Copper Canyon, 2023 112 pp., $18.00 (paperback) In Bob Hicok’s 2023 poetry collection, Water Look Away, the poet does anything but. The collection opens with “Welcome Home,” in which a husband finds his wife in the