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April 30, 2026 / barton smock

genitalia,

genitalia 1

In the garden
the tree
of hair

Later,
god up
at night
April 29, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn imagery

There’s nothing to do
in this unicorn
April 28, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn death spiral

On the jesus
of our headache
That mouth
April 28, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn map

They gave my insides to the animal that had smelled me in heaven. They are trying to grow the loneliest woman.
April 28, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn parents

A ventriloquist falls silent in a film that shows hell. There are places in heaven that are too close to god.
April 26, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn weapon testing

Creation became small enough to hold us. I won’t be putting my feet on the earth and that’s gonna have to be ok. I have been told more than once about my sentences. My deep-in-thought newborns. About the rape fantasy cutoff I’d have made had I not in second grade pissed on that mat in music class. God having to hear god, imagine. I wanted to kill myself and tell someone. Language started with a deer. In the deer that heard it. Snow remembers being snow, but you have to be there. The internet stops to pray in a prayer.

April 20, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn acceptance

Once you eat the eye of god
the eating
and the eye

last forever. Existence

has no mechanism
to recognize
death. We need

animals. Holy

grief sale
we need

animals.

Image mourns too early
the mirage
that haunts
sobriety. This drone

that drone

There was room
at the inn

April 16, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn ghost

In rabbit astronomy, a hole touches a hole. I want you to imagine the loneliness of being a thing that others its own cure. Death loves the disabled. I am still hurt by the art you don't like. My brothers have started running. Dearest brothers I was hit at a different clip by those who would say a prayer over weapons buried in the garden. I don't think anyone should receive an award for writing prose. School shootings, that's why. Also psalms. Also haiku. Also the age nostalgia reaches in America and the age it doesn't in Israel. Death loves the disabled. Did I say that already? God sure misses being notified of the yearning we've created.  
April 14, 2026 / barton smock

unicorn exit


long
as you can
stay sick
on the earth

stop
the babies
the weapons
are young

April 12, 2026 / barton smock

donate, tools, poetry, etc

My kind and caring and purposeful brother Noah is fundraising for ToolBank Disaster Services, which provides essential tools & equipment to communities recovering from natural disasters. 

To anyone who donates any amount, I will send a poetry collection of the giver's choice. Once you donate, email me at bartonsmock@yahoo.com with your address and the poetry collection you want and I'll order immediately.

Checkout my brother Noah C Smock's current write-up below:

I'm in the middle of week 2 of my running experiment/fundraiser, "Lace Up Like It's 1995!". I started the week by running in a flannel shirt in honor of my preferred style in the 1990s. Tried to get that in before it gets too warm in Maryland.

This week's miles are dedicated to my older middle brother, my primary tormentor, champion, & motivator lo these 46 years. His love language is challenging you to a competition & trying to beat the living daylights out of you. Tune in as I log miles to challenge myself and to raise funds for ToolBank Disaster Services.

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