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August 20, 2015 / barton smock

from (eating the animal back to life) ~poems, July 2015~

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from Eating the Animal Back to Life (barton smock, poems, 316 pages, self published, July 2015)

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interpretive work

prayer
as the horn
the car
carries
into
a tornado. touch

as ventriloquy.

arms

it is not suicide to bomb god’s shadow. I am the dot my father calls button. my son’s mind would’ve given oxygen too many places to go. his body happened overnight.

son

it was born in a bath of milk when there was milk to burn. it drew with daylight. when asked for details, it pulled a shadow’s tooth. we took it to a movie, a war movie, where it made its first noise. its pain went everywhere. it sold, it sold until it ran out of clothes. its mothers had fight.

lost

the better part
of isolation

fact checking
his father’s
loneliness

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