SO FUCKING STOKED 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 first. Love what this kid does, onscreen and off.
The first of these is HERE
country 10
100 poems about time travel:
The child young enough to be on my hip is waving to the nobody in the microwave. The dead have a past. But it's empty
Ohio sexuality:
A private pencil erasing nobodies from a blue past. A way for fish to keep passwords from God.
Far notes:
The bomb is never here long enough to know it’s found us. Son in bird years you’d be dead. A stomach holds on to its hand-shaped sleep.
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BOOKS, self published:
rocks have the softest shadows, 237 pages
poems, Dec 2020
untouched in the capital of soon, 187 pages
poems, Sept 2021
PAY WHAT YOU WANT
can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)
or Venmo: @Barton-Smock-1
or CashApp: $BartonSmock
pdfs at GUMROAD
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excerpt at Anvil Tongue of 'rocks have the softest shadows'
some poetry at SangamHouse
interview, at neonpajamas
interview, at The Collidescope
country 8
I made a list, once, of all the weapons I wanted you to try and then, while barefoot, I was told that god would never walk and that my birthmark was a hole I'd never see.
Here are two poems about nostalgia:
regret regrets not using its alias
this is the wrong
tadpole's
past
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
city 33
Bagging the bright mouse in the deer faith of my youth
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city 34
Tooth decay carried by god over the capital of After
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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
All named
Cigarette
-
city 74
In its shadow grief the window
in the open
Mirror
-
city 102
Angels buy footsteps with pictures of the poor
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city 103
Your mother enters god in the ghost you painted for death
cover art by Noah M Smockcover art by Noah M Smockcover art by Noah M Smockcover art by Aidan Smock
untouched in the capital of soon, 187 pages
poems, Sept 2021
can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)
or Venmo: @Barton-Smock-1
or CashApp: $BartonSmock
*pay what you want. if cover preference, let me know in order notes or at bartonsmock@yahoo.com
on GUMROAD, here
country 6
Lightning as it thirsts for a stray glacier's rib.
The unsought
quiet
of a surgeon's
body.
Things
after they happen
in the sun of my disgrief
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