(reprieve)
MOON tattoo, poems, Barton Smock, March 2016
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poems, from:
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[the lost art of memorizing psalms]
the food bowl
of a baby boy
is the nest
of a fool’s
bird
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something smaller
than my brother
has been killed
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[devourer]
how to grieve, how to startle
an echo.
the map is desired that maps the afterlife.
my only (is for a hope)
that bores
god.
by now
my son
knows more.
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[stratum]
two brothers come to blows over which sister likes fast food more. a man we want to love is shadowboxing a snowdrift from the parable of touch. blood is a food group. I pray to my hair. call my footwork by name. take my time
with amnesia.
baby facts include being born again in the museum you were carried to.
kingsoftrain 
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