DDCPoetry

Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)" by Bob Hicok More Information about the Poet: Bob Hicok Past me wrote, "move to a different narrative," and even though this poem feels like a Best Man's speech, there is a move to a different narrative -- the singular to the plural and, perhaps, to the singular again.  The single stanza forces the connections between everything with no breaks.  However, the poem has a sense of speed due to the syntax and the language. The first person perspective in the first introductory lines has a sense of humor behind them, "I don't have much time.  I'm an important person / to chickadees and mourning doves, whose feeder / was smashed last night by a raccoon." Here the language is too real, as though to define importance by building something that was once destroyed -- and how to fix this, "Soon / I'll be wielding duct tape, noticing the dew, / wa...