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10% off all print books AND free mail shipping (or 50% off ground shipping) today at Lulu with coupon code of BOOKSHIP17

through the end of October, any monies I receive from the sales of my self-published books on Lulu will be sent to a poet friend of mine who was injured while clearing debris for others after Hurricane Irma.

available books are here:
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also, any monies I receive for the below private publications will be added to and for same.

private publications are available via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com) or https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock, as such:

chapbook, BASILISK, 64 pages $5.00
(Feb 2017)

chapbook, the accepted field, 84 pages $5.00
(May 2017)

chapbook, in this life another is you, 64 pages $3.00
(Oct 2017)

full length, so sang, 210 pages $8.00
(Oct 2017)

some recent poems:

[ultimata]

how am I not a dream? I am not a place. I can’t say rabbit but can robot. my god knows one story. those I count when I’m sad are those I count when happy. grandfather means pipe-smoke and grandmother an outdoor pool. their daughter is a lamb-haunted horse. I see Ohio as an ear but still I ask what happened to the ear in question. I don’t sleep unless I need proof I never. I am older than the brothers I scare. travel is my sister’s vehicle. my dog is chewing on a rubber hand. it can’t be dark in both.

~

[desire, footnote]

drunk above a son I cannot feed, I don’t long to swim

but do
to have my mother’s hair
combed
by a horse-

birth
oh when
was I tamed

~

[surgery, age eight]

these names, before you were born. colorblind orphan, yawnless fish. ghost with calendar.

look at me
when I’m invisible

~

[notes for insect]

I will never know a ghost story

god does not

~

[my quiet quiet son]

“Probably I’ll die like this,
a long time ago.” – Franz Wright

I will never forget hearing god pronounce your name
to a ghost obsessed with wolves

out there in the dogness

~

[a growth hormone for phantom limbs]

not roadkill
what crawls
from a costume

~

[pig rain]

a cigarette burn and the time it tells once. gum in the puppet’s hair.

blind date
with birth.