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August 2, 2022 / barton smock

house,

house 5

I read my writer and you read yours

a third
can switch the order 
of god and death
August 2, 2022 / barton smock

house,

house 4

loneliness is the only type of loneliness that nobody talks about

let's say it's the day I don't always learn to bathe a mouth

a whole family chooses not to eat 
all the food 

the channel 
the one 
with one 
car accident

ghost goes from jesus to scarecrow and back
can't decide

is something still written on the inside 
of how I view 
my hand
July 31, 2022 / barton smock

( reading ( blood to bathe us in its blue past ( & ) untouched in the capital of soon

so I did this really long rather awkward reading from my last two self-publications but I do mean what I say or at least what one can hear of it:



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blood to bathe us in its blue past, 217 pages
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July 22, 2022 / barton smock

house,

house 3

whose childhood
was the longest
there is always
one friend
with a nosebleed
July 21, 2022 / barton smock

house,

house 2

nothing is beautiful to God

do your parents
have private
food
July 19, 2022 / barton smock

house,

house 1

we are slow with our loneliness
so slow that god
thinks in twos

the snow comes for other snow

a spoon 
prays
to a mirror

no one can watch

and the snow
gets away
July 15, 2022 / barton smock

I pretend that my teeth are the teeth of those who’ve seen my teeth

only god would fake sleep in an empty house
July 15, 2022 / barton smock

etc, blood & capital

from BLOOD TO BATHE US IN ITS BLUE PAST
/

country 5

A bunch of insomniacs are making short films about nosebleeds. To them I am sometimes a sound effect. Handstand or handsand, I am too young to be watched. I don't have wrists and I can't take the bath your body took. Kiss loss. Kiss loss where
.

country 7

Two mirrors praying over the glass in our food. Death continuing to believe I know where god is. The pill that remembers your one thought. The choir of alas

.

A BALLOON IN THE CHURCH OF TOUCH

she reaches into the same hat for the rabbit he’s made disappear.

I sleep and the dark takes me for the bone

lightning
straightens.

by death I mean nothing was beautiful for a very long time.
that, and when did you know.
.

from UNTOUCHED IN THE CAPITAL OF SOON
/

city 31

Click
while naked
On this

link

That later
the forgetting
is small

.

city 32

sleep cries itself to death
I wrote

a poem
similar
to the poem 
below

You love
another

.

NOSTALGIA, BRUTALLY

a trapdoor meant for a circle, a body

from a puzzled
lake, god

falling ill
in a dream, back

to back

cures
for skin
.

(all books are pay what you want)

untouched in the capital of soon, 187 pages
poems, Sept 2021
can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)
or Venmo: @Barton-Smock-2
or CashApp: $BartonSmock

blood to bathe us in its blue past, 217 pages
poems new and selected, May 2022
can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)
or Venmo: @Barton-Smock-2
or CashApp: $BartonSmock

sometimes I remember to like being asked




July 13, 2022 / barton smock

waysides

Near an Ohio church for those who crawl early, an angel unable to think about death leaves its pain for a ghost. A ghost is a map, but not everyone knows. How close are we? I remember we could laugh in two places at once. Movie theater. Rest stop. At your father who wrote that his children would be in so much paint. I spell when you spell. When nothing’s there.
July 13, 2022 / barton smock

waysides

Brother peeling a hidden orange.

A smoke ring where once
our mouse
played dead.

Hearing loss
in a mother's
wrist.