{dome}
still have two privately self-published chapbooks {BASILISK; the accepted field} available in hard copy and free to anyone making said request to bartonsmock@yahoo.com
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most recent full-length collections:
{name calling}
9.00, 110 pages, published March 2017
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/name-calling/paperback/product-23117082.html
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{paw five}
9.00, 130 pages, published May 2017
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/paw-five/paperback/product-23198602.html
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a poem from {name calling}:
[the boy-sleep of his hands]
/ a pair of scissors in one room or a gun in two. a thumb war’s lame spider. four rootless prayers drawn on an echo. four awestruck sisters caressing with their ears the undeveloped skull of an infant. melancholy’s condoms. flowers for the arm-wrestler’s inoculated phantom.
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two poems from {paw five}:
[ballerina]
dog whistle, nothing’s church-bell:
my mother, handcuffed
still worships
wasp
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[mothers, acoustic]
we are maybe
inside
an Ohio
factory
childless and ready
for a refresher
on orphan
etiquette-
word is
there came
a cow
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