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January 12, 2024 / barton smock

finished poem

Rainwater’s 
first ambulance
never makes it

to the shy
legless
angel. Your mom

is still
pretty. She says

the mouth
starts
in the mouth

and that language

creates
a reinvented
scarcity. Anyway,

there’s this
southern
thing
that happens

when I talk. When I wear

a bra
and don’t.

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