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July 23, 2019 / barton smock

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from collection [Ghost Arson]

TUBE FEEDING

the boy who in the middle of performing a handstand finds god just as she’s creating the oceans after being overtaken by a herd of ghosts

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HOW I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER MY SISTER

in a puppet show
about washing
my son’s
feet, or waving down

the ice cream truck
with her bible, or

as farewell

to nothing’s
church
of neither

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from collection [MOTHERLINGS]

JAW NOTES

it is okay

(in the afterglow
of a mother’s
childhood
hiding place)

to live
as a dull
child (on bits of eggshell

from the angel’s mouth

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BREVITIES

if told by your hands to set myself on fire, I would pray my father into a snake and death would cry in a whale for every bee that lost its voice.

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from collection [Animal Masks On the Floor of the Ocean]

MATERIALS

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