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December 27, 2021 / barton smock

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

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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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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:

December 20, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia vii

God slips in and out of the bomb before it lands

Snow and rain
meet once
Not yet

December 20, 2021 / barton smock

Sunburst (film), from the makers of Wade In The Water, donate etc

Please consider donating to fund the film Sunburst, here, by the makers of Wade In The Water.

You can read about the film HERE

I had this to say about Wade In The Water:

Wade In The Water is a film that builds itself so quietly from its physical and spiritual surroundings that any viewer may find themselves checking the room they’re in to make sure it’s in the right place. If dialogue driven, it is walked to where it is by character, and Tom E Nicholson follows the offhand with a focus most can’t summon for travelogue, while Danika Golombek drains dream from both open space and cramped diner long enough to correctly guess the names of sleepwalkers.
December 19, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia vi

A train named after another train 
changes fields. 

Mirrors forget
that god
can't move.
December 15, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia v

memory scares itself
twice
or once

you've a way

with squirrels
and pain
December 13, 2021 / barton smock

death & fatherhood in lastly ohio

I don't want to be from the future anymore.

I'm not ready.
December 10, 2021 / barton smock

2013, 2015, edits, domestic inquiries that became ghostalgia(s)

ghostalgia iv

A pup expires with a yip in a ransacked store. You say we are behind the snowy tv screen we made into a blanket for a dying robot. You can have me from the waist up. In Ohio I am not a girl chewing the corner of a baseball card but I am her brother researching the toy exile of lightning storms. Our domestic inquiries include the sex of the first person in hell, the number of animals giving birth in the field that burned emptiness, and if Adam was Eve's great lie. The more I think of time travel, the more it can do.