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May 9, 2022 / barton smock

ghostalgia xix

I've never been in a dream like this where I can see all my kids at once. It could mean nothing. A thumbtack I've had longer than a paperclip. The sleep-getting guard of god's two amnesias. Dying. I'm not sure what you want. The animals I name in no time.
May 2, 2022 / barton smock

ghostalgia xviii

I will miss your hair 
with mine. 

We don't need to talk. 

Someone 

remind longing 
to mourn.
May 1, 2022 / barton smock

( third animation by Noah M Smock for my upcoming work ‘blood to bathe us in its blue past’)

one more animation by Noah M Smock for my collection blood to bathe us in its blue past

HERE
May 1, 2022 / barton smock

( animations by Noah M Smock for poems from my upcoming self-published title ‘blood to bathe us in its blue past’

Again, so cool to be working with my son Noah M Smock who is doing some animations for poems from my upcoming self-published work tentatively titled blood to bathe us in its blue past.

HERE is the newest.

HERE is the previous.
April 30, 2022 / barton smock

country,

country 14

An orange baseball gives up in a white field.

Birth and death
no longer
miss each other.

A broken branch from my dog's sleep
is a big deal

and the saddest thing
April 29, 2022 / barton smock

well a note

anyway I really miss my grandmothers, my grandfathers, my father-in-law, and oh how I miss my aunt and lately the writing idk it's just not all there but I think that is part of it you know the distance the lack of wording the void that not even absence will throw itself into but I just want to say that while all this loss to me is like losing a place or an eyepatch or the x on some root, these losses mean to others whole fucking mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and limbs without phantom and I just don't know what to say except that I am speechless at the tip of so many tongues and that I hope you are all able to language your way backward and through
April 29, 2022 / barton smock

( some cities, from ‘untouched in the capital of soon’

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city 33 Bagging the bright mouse in the deer faith of my youth - city 34 Tooth decay carried by god over the capital of After - city 35 All secrecy genetic Proof is our last ghost - city 36 A running shower that prays impossibly on the body of our lowest sibling for the return of a bomb-maker's homesick drone - city 37 An angel burned for soundproofing crows - city 61 One dollhouse for another The noises leave I keep the same double life Dog's paw, child's knee The rifle's Tilted field - city 67 Dying, touch will ask to attend the hand's silent film debut - city 69 Crow, with seashell - city 70 or 71 The short past of my body in the small of yours A baby chewing on its hand in pile of leaves - city 72 and 73 The boy has one mouse…

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April 27, 2022 / barton smock

country,

country 13

A glove passed from baby to baby 

or a light switch 
left 
for nearby 
angels.

A hand in the middle
of being a hand

April 27, 2022 / barton smock

country,

country 12

We throw seashells into a cornfield.

There are children
we want back
April 26, 2022 / barton smock

country,

country 11

We argue agonology in the exploded ghostgrief of god.

Repair is winter's last machine