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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.

December 10, 2021 / barton smock

two poems about god

I keep seeing the same beautiful things
December 8, 2021 / barton smock

untouched in the capital of soon / rocks have the softest shadows / etc sorry

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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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FROM [ rocks have the softest shadows ]

~diets of the resurrected~ Ohio prolonged: My drug use writes to a jellyfish ~ There are certain rooms I walk out of to make my son heavier. Certain campfires disguised as nests. God is here but has forgotten sending Death to fetch the infant brainwashed by sleep. Death is here but location lasts forever. ~ Ohio cut short: I am gathering the eggs and giving each one a name as if each is a body part favorited by those angels of the geographically vacant and then my mom calls to me and then accidentally to my brother and her voice it never…

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December 8, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia iii

In the doll's only dream, the child cuts god underwater

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I wasn't ugly 
but you didn't 
see me

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Return gives its hair to absence

An elevator is lost 
by an angel
December 6, 2021 / barton smock

ghostalgia ii

After all, I did not tell you that my son's body is a cloud, his pain

the duster
of his bones, his loneliness

that of a parent
with children