Noelle Kocot — “Bicycle Poem”

OK, here’s the scenario. You’re at a reading, the reading’s just ended, all are milling, and you spot an interesting poet, this would be Noelle Kocot-Tomblin, and you are chatting away. You stop. “Hey wait, you say, do you have a poem! I need a poem!” And like that, unfurling from her mouth, a sparkling piece of the divine. Surely it’s one of the greatest poems ever written.

“Bicycle Poem”
by Noelle Kocot

Noelle Kocot has four poetry collections in print: Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (2006) and Sunny Wednesday (2009) were both published by Wave Books, 4 (2001) and The Raving Fortune (2004) by Four Way Books. You can read a good number of her poems online:

• Three of her poems are at the Academy of American Poets’ site: “I am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins,” “While Writing” and “The Peace That So Lovingly Descends .”
• Four poems from 4 appear at “Reading Between A and B.”
• “While Writing” and “Passing Over Water” are posted at the site of her publisher, Four Way Books.
• “Love, Alters, Everything” was published in the special LA/NY edition of The East Village.
• “Palm Sunday 1998” appeared in Lungfull #12.
• “Sestina for Lizzette” was in Jacket 16.
• Three of her poems appear in the online selections from Lit, New School Literary Journal.
• “Love Poem on the Anniversary of Nowhere” is posted in both text and audio at the NEA Writers Corner.

• 4 (Four Way Books, 2001)
  
  
  
• The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books, 2004)
  
  
  
• Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (Wave Books, 2006)
  
  
  
• Sunny Wednesday (Wave Books, 2009)