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April 24, 2022 / barton smock

(blood to bathe us in its blue past…animations, etc, by Noah M Smock

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



April 20, 2022 / barton smock

country,

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
April 20, 2022 / barton smock

in heaven the less famous animals

in heaven the less famous animals
create
so silently 
that god
stays
when of course
there is
a god
April 20, 2022 / barton smock

country,

country 9

Two poems about his gun:

You can like your body but only if we can see it all at once. Sleep

is the new
sleep
April 19, 2022 / barton smock

( if you’re poor enough, snow takes the pulse of the moon ( bits of the said and the placed

barton smock's avatarkingsoftrain

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.

~~~~~

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

~~~~~

excerpt at Anvil Tongue of 'rocks have the softest shadows'

some poetry at SangamHouse

interview, at neonpajamas

interview, at The Collidescope

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April 19, 2022 / barton smock

country,

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
April 16, 2022 / barton smock

country,

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
April 11, 2022 / barton smock

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

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

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

-

city 103

Your mother enters god in the ghost you painted for death

cover art by Noah M Smock
cover art by Noah M Smock
cover art by Noah M Smock
cover 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
April 11, 2022 / barton smock

country,

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
April 7, 2022 / barton smock

country,

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