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January 5, 2024 / barton smock

funeral poem

With each
new dream
I’m dead
longer
to the same
people.

I learn their language
by knowing
what to say. Mine

by sleeping
naked
near a god
whose creator

is a changed
creature. I get

about as far
as a bullet
dragging
an angel. Sound

is a small
collector.

Sound
is a small
collector.

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