death & prayer
i.
to be called forth
from nothing
how perfect
/ no melancholy
is fair
to insect
ii.
would that we could be separated
later
by birth
that we might enjoy
shape
/ the darkness of being remembered
-
Join 2,409 other subscribers
- Follow kingsoftrain on WordPress.com
writer page on facebook
-
Recent Posts
- SIMPLEGODEXITSCHILDHOOD
- will it never end, this dream where I die
- animations of my poems done by Noah M Smock published in Issue 5 ( hush: a journal of noise )
- from the book of hiatus
- from the book of hiatus
- nakedness wants you to see the last of it
- against artistry
- father oh
- ( WORKS re: permissions, bluepast, sooner capitals, apartures
- outsides
- (don’t (not) read)
- deer as permission to die in ohio, chapbook, 43 poems, April 2023, available now
- against interiority
- outsides
- small poems against dying
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*}
- 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
- soonisms, at Poem-A-Day
- the best
- three poems at The Collidescope
- Underfoot Poetry
- { poems and some words on Ghost Arson, Fearless [poetry zine] #66 }
publications by barton smock
reviews, interviews, oblivion
- essay, my small press writing day
- fevers of the mind
- gazing grain press interview
- gumroad
- interview at the Collidescope, by George Salis
- interview by Ben Niespodziany at neonpajamas
- kindess, again
- 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
- 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
- tinyletter
- { interview at Flyway Journal by Crystal Stone in regards to collection Ghost Arson }
Twitter Updates
Tweets by bartonsmock
kingsoftrain 
Leave a Reply