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my most recent self-published (Lulu) works are here-

shuteye in the land of the sacred commoner [& other poems]:
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FOUR:
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FOUR is a compilation of my last four works, and I am hosting a goodreads giveaway for it here:
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please check out these poems recently published at FORAGE:
https://foragepoetry.com/2016/07/02/three-poems-by-barton-smock/

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some previous poems from my self-published works:

[segue]

the feeling
we’d not
been here
before

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doom’s little hiccup

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my brother
dead serious
that we pronounce it

hick
gnosis

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[footfall]

a newborn wants to be a hand.

there’s the dream I have of heaven
and the dream
god lets me
bring.

my boy
has a crow
for a backpack.

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[domestic inquiries]

the sex of the first person in hell

the number of animals
giving birth
in a field
where emptiness
burns

the logic of
if ax to tree, then scissors
to kite

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[the explanation]

my brother the mud wrestler wants to know if we’re any closer to finding our father. I examine the droppings and say someone is feeding you in your sleep.

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[ataraxy]

it’s a bit early
to be
reincarnated

son, this illness

it takes
our death