Ghost Arson
(Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018)
if you’ve read it, skimmed it, or rewritten it…say something somewhere.
if interested in reviewing, contact me at ghostarson@gmail.com
book is 15.00 / orders for signed copies can be made via paypal to ghostarson@gmail.com or by using link:
PayPal.Me/ghostarson
*be sure to include your address in the notes field
or one can send a check to:
Barton Smock
5155 Hatfield Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
on amazon:
at barnes & noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-arson-barton-smock/1129931893?ean=9781946642868
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facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ghostarson/
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43229602-ghost-arson
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review by Dd. Spungin: https://kingsoftrain.com/2018/11/28/dd-spungins-review-of-ghost-arson/
review by George Salis: https://kingsoftrain.com/2018/12/17/review-by-george-salis-of-barton-smocks-ghost-arson/
interview by Crystal Stone for Flyway Journal: http://flywayjournal.org/book-reviews/interview-with-barton-smock-author-of-ghost-arson/
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facebook live reading: https://www.facebook.com/barton.smock/videos/10155837390135423/
god is the word food spells in my mouth.
you have to be this tall
to be hungry.
(there is a ghost looking for its rock collection)
our absence
unheard of
I wore
to bed
a dog’s
collar
and in
the dream
broke your leg
on mine
do you remember
being spanked
the ant
on your cheek
lonelier
than a stick
(I think
god
he put
my hand
in a hand
done
with growing (there is
the star I sleep under
the toothache
you
making owl sounds
for my son
he is so
tired
and there was a time
I invented god
thinking
I’d outlast
my body
a time
I carried
my mouth
as the stone
of the dark
and I guess
that’s how
I slept
my lips
on the head
of any
creature
mom says everyone in this photo is dead.
her eye
is quiet
the second
bird
Ghost Arson
(Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018)
if you’ve read it, skimmed it, or rewritten it…say something somewhere.
if interested in reviewing, contact me at ghostarson@gmail.com
book is 15.00 / orders for signed copies can be made via paypal to ghostarson@gmail.com or by using link:
PayPal.Me/ghostarson
*be sure to include your address in the notes field
or one can send a check to:
Barton Smock
5155 Hatfield Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
on amazon:
at barnes & noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-arson-barton-smock/1129931893?ean=9781946642868
~
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ghostarson/
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43229602-ghost-arson
~
review by Dd. Spungin: https://kingsoftrain.com/2018/11/28/dd-spungins-review-of-ghost-arson/
review by George Salis: https://kingsoftrain.com/2018/12/17/review-by-george-salis-of-barton-smocks-ghost-arson/
interview by Crystal Stone for Flyway Journal: http://flywayjournal.org/book-reviews/interview-with-barton-smock-author-of-ghost-arson/
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facebook live reading: https://www.facebook.com/barton.smock/videos/10155837390135423/
reflection on Ceremony of Sand, by Rodney Gomez, here:
http://isacoustic.com/2019/03/28/ceremony-of-sand-poems-rodney-gomez/
the dirt god kept in his mouth while waiting for his mother to fall asleep. the bone your sister broke with her stomach. ghost as angel’s nostalgia. angel as the past of the stickman’s dog. the hole. the tunnel. the arm thrown overboard by a weightless orphan.
to know god
is to know god
as your abuser’s
healer. sorrow ends
but ends
as a class
taught
by a mouse.
kingsoftrain 