May 26, 2017 / barton smock

{prematurely, paw five}

book now available on Lulu, here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/paw-five/paperback/product-23198602.html

my latest will be available in a few days…it is titled {paw five}, 124 poems, all small and cocoon and absence of worship.

am currently making 10-15 hard copies of it available for free. send request to bartonsmock@yahoo.com

and, here’s the whole fucking thing:

[lost priest]

I come from a place where a school bus hits a dog and the bus driver barks and all her kids play dead

[boy in darkness]

blood is a movie and none of it

yours

[the story outside]

a boy in a diaper
covered in flour

a sadness specific to elevators

cocoon
on every
menu

[lightning storms]

in a wedding dress
worn once
and haunted
by paper cuts

going
at her dolls
with a fork

[too dark now over nothing to cry]

cavity
a clock
dreamt
by a scar.

the scalpel
the ear’s
idea.

birthplace, hide your…

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