returning
I never heard my father cough
I must
to say so
be dying
insect is a thing
cannot be
surrounded
the rich have their ghosts and the angels
their seaweed
-
Join 1,113 other subscribers
- Follow kingsoftrain on WordPress.com
writer page on facebook
-
Recent Posts
- unkillable angels still go to the cinema
- the beginning
- what a terrible thing to know that someone’s going to heaven
- unicorn conspiracies
- unicorn addiction police
- the beginning
- I didn’t even want to write really only read over and over ‘The Economy’ by Ariana Reines
- looking through a cigarette in the stomach of god
- carry your hand into death
- shadow bread
- the person we share
- bread
- unicorn grief
- sang a tooth in a rock in a mirror of salt
- 2025 publication and non-publication recap
Search
at odds
- 5 poems at Cultural Daily
- excerpt from 'rocks have the softest shadows' @ Anvil Tongue Books
- Half Light by Heather Minette, released by {isacoustic*}
- hushlit
- iota, at anvil tongue
- last man on earth
- on writing
- poems at MacQueen's Quinterly
- Poetry At Sangam, 6 poems
- review of Erik Rasmussen's A Diet of Worms (at Heavy Feather review)
- review of Logan February's 'Mannequin In The Nude' (at Heavy Feather Review)
- review of Maya Sonenberg's AFTER THE DEATH OF SHOSTAKOVICH PÈRE (at Heavy Feather Review)
- review of Sybil Baker's While You Were Gone (at [PANK])
- short life
- some gone work over at Fevers of the Mind
- soonisms, at Poem-A-Day
- the best
- three poems at The Collidescope
- to 50 micro writings of 2025, at scaffold, Ethel Cain letter 1 and angelry
- top 50 microwritings of 2024, Ethan Hawke letters
- Underfoot Poetry
- work published at Mercurius
- { poems and some words on Ghost Arson, Fearless [poetry zine] #66 }
publications by barton smock
readings
reviews, interviews, oblivion
- essay, my small press writing day
- fevers of the mind
- gazing grain press interview
- interview at boldjourney 2/16/2024
- interview at the Collidescope, by George Salis
- interview by Ben Niespodziany at neonpajamas
- interview on The Collidescope Podcast, George Salis, 2024
- kindness
- Krystal Sierra's review of Barton Smock's MOON tattoo
- linktree
- POEM-A-DAY, August 2021
- poetic asides interview
- Power of Poetry statement @ The Poetry Question
- reading 7/31/22
- reading 8/3/23
- review of barton smock's 'mating rituals of the responsibly poor'
- review of Barton Smock's Hallelujah Lip-Synch by Emma Hall
- review of hiatus newsletters, synesthesia lit journal
- review of infant*cinema, by George Salis
- some kindness in allowing
- the poetry question
- Tom Snarsky on moral narcissism
- { interview at Flyway Journal by Crystal Stone in regards to collection Ghost Arson }
Twitter Updates
Tweets by bartonsmock
kingsoftrain 
Very well written.
Come and write with us.
Share your thoughts on Ascerblog.com and we will make them reach people all across the world.
Quotes, Poems, Stories; Whatever you wish to write.
Register on Ascerblog.com and start writing.
Get a chance to be showcased on our website by being the Author of The Month.