kingsoftrain

January 6, 2022 / barton smock

i. (response poems for Benjamin Niespodziany

My sibling's white noise machine reminds angels that they've no young. 

There are three light switches per rooster. They are

The overlooked church of the eel

Frog's empty life

God sees an image 
that's been moved 
by me

January 5, 2022 / barton smock

said nothing anew

still true what I said in this interview about 'rocks have the softest shadows', etc:

Where did you grow up and how did that influence your writing? Have any travels away from home influence your work?

I grew up in smalltown Ohio. I’m not sure what that means, but that’s usually what I say. If there is something in my bones, I’d say it’s some sort of cold that sends a toddler outside in a diaper to stand on a cement block to see the ocean.

I haven’t been to too many places physically. Influence, to me, has always seemed sort of doomed. I do have four children, and they come with their own territories. My youngest son has a progressive disorder of the muscle and the brain, which often makes of place an empty dot that we go skin-to-skin to fill. It’s that filling that uproots.

What do you consider your most meaningful work you’ve done creatively so far?

As I am parented by the recent, I’d have to say a longer exploration titled ‘diets of the resurrected’ which is included in my most current self-published collection rocks have the softest shadows. It was a year in the making or unmaking, and is an entry-guided piece that started with the idea of a suicidal baby and came with so many rules that I abandoned them immediately in favor of repeating my obsessions. I think I failed the monster but not the creature.

the above is from this

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rocks have the softest shadows, 237 pages
poems, Dec 2020

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December 29, 2021 / barton smock

partials,

I wonder does death worry about my son like does death ever grip the doorknob that hurt a sound

December 28, 2021 / barton smock

part & poem

Death pulls at its unreal hair. Hand is a color. 

Touch has a postcard for the painter who sees your breath.

December 27, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia ix

You are a certain way 
and look 
for love

Cricket
learns of sleep

Jesus wanting there to be a god

December 27, 2021 / barton smock

rocks have the softest shadows / untouched in the capital of soon / self – published, free PDF, etc

kingsoftrain

rocks have the softest shadows, 237 pages
poems, Dec 2020
untouched in the capital of soon, 187 pages
poems, Sept 2021


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can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)
or Venmo: @Barton-Smock-1
or CashApp: $BartonSmock

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December 23, 2021 / barton smock

part poem

Ghost has aged

Death is homesick

Touch pretends 
its lost 
eye 
is lost

December 22, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia viii

A moon-owned payphone

The leaf of my pain

A pharmacy
trying to move
a tornado

Bad lighting, cigarettes, grass

It's not
personal

December 22, 2021 / barton smock

rocks have the softest shadows / untouched in the capital of soon / self – published, free PDF, etc

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

Please put in the notes/comments of your order which book you want, or if you are wanting both. Please also include a physical mailing address.

PDFs are free, and below:

rocks have the softest shadows Download

untouched in the capital of soon Download

kingsoftrain

movies 2021

i. (response poems for Benjamin Niespodziany

said nothing anew

partials,

part & poem

ghostalgia ix

rocks have the softest shadows / untouched in the capital of soon / self – published, free PDF, etc

part poem

ghostalgia viii

rocks have the softest shadows / untouched in the capital of soon / self – published, free PDF, etc

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