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August 18, 2026 / barton smock

( genitalia entries from upcoming collection

genitalia 1

In the garden
the tree
of hair

Later,
god up
at night


genitalia 2

In the dream
they shove an egg
down my pants
and start
punching

Later,
I keep my jeans on
Swim

to the lake’s
middle


genitalia 3

A man can be seen sitting on the roof of his mother’s house. He has a gun, or a stick, and some say they can hear a baby crying. I am the man’s most quiet brother. A cop talks to my brother from below and is pointing at my brother’s dog and is telling my brother that we are all going to count to three and the dog will die. My brother screams it isn’t his dog. The dog looks hurt. I think by this.


genitalia 4


In my brother
a child
asks
for a child
hoodless
boy

Later,
there is no
future
in being
the surgeon
of an angel

Lately I touch
with yours
my subscription
to pain, I love

my children too much
to be a good father

This doesn’t even go here

Imagine finishing a poem about debt

God’s


genitalia 5

In this grunting spectacle
of machines
that go
nowhere
I cannot

put my mouth
on the animal that’s having my memories

Later,
God with death’s
perfect baby


genitalia 6

thoughtless
star
unmoved
by the newborn’s
lifetime
of regret

genitalia 7

a grey
lightbulb
for a lost
moth


genitalia 8

In the castration
dreams
of bewildered
angels

or in the surveillance
dreams
of the unaroused
might one

pick up smoking
yes
to empty

the wrist of god


genitalia 9

The boy
Litmus
dies
and is briefly
dead
A dog
in the dark
mourns
the turned off
snowball
of the human
heart
Loneliness
isn’t
perfect
perfect


genitalia 10

Touch has one parent
who can draw
up to three
body types

Every parent after that uses their hands to find the thing they’ve hit you with

Let us edit our nudes in the place machine


genitalia 11

I am only
made

.
genitalia 12

Imagine being stabbed.
Now, imagine being stabbed.
I am the body my tenderness haunts.
I am the mouth
my mouth
is on. To sob, enter god. Close
the god
behind you. In and out
of seeing
yours
these are
my eyes.
A person is gone.


genitalia 13

A man screams that he remembers being a child. His last mother weighs herself inside of a piano playing a song later named something nearer to

the permanence of a crow in the snow. We play word games as a family because we think that kid is dead not living

and burned. I hide my eating at the inn and my food in the church’s basement. No one is first to the body. No one is second. The future makes what it can of faster longing. It’s not much but it’s much.


genitalia 14

Noon, moon, none. Time loses itself in the drone company’s rabbit hole of plainness. Touch reaches an age. Love no one.


genitalia 15

A cricket listening for god

The longing
of the ocean
to lie
down

The plain search history of our saddest child

Father’s
job
younger
younger

God the next
cricket



genitalia 16

A boneless deer in the dream resistant stomach of an angel

The mouth
model
for the loneliest
mouth
award

The single-use hand of god the boy

Shape’s collection of entry
forms



genitalia 17

All has been seen by the same image. My singing is a ripped bird sent to a scarecrow. When are you going to stop writing about god asks god. My mother texts me dream’s grocery list of suspended women. Male I touch in a male way. Kill water watching my son boil. Peephole, feeding tube. Ghostless babies weigh the guilt of escaping heaven.



genitalia 18

Salt is a word you can't find in your past. Killing occurred to god but not before having a brother. No one drinks more than a fast learner turned on by nostalgia. Sometimes when we love a mom an angel cuts its throat in a noise machine. I got this tattoo in my sleep.



genitalia 19

the mouth that flew into my mouth has begun to open in yours

mouth of god, mouth of god

how do I close the mouth of god

maybe we kissed
it didn’t
fly

no image for that

two people, Eden, a spoonful of snow




last genitalia

A cigarette fills with the distance it cannot eat while a drunk man in a treehouse writes his son toward a smaller death

So what if in the future I’m thinking on the death I left for god

A lifetime of stomach pain for Abel’s imaginary friend

Dream that expected someone else

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