stoplight.
the unbrushed
hair
of a weak
showerhead.
pre-grief erections.
owl
hymns
for pulled
ears.
fossil, cloud…
it’s okay to like your little life.
I have proof.
received my first copies of Ghost Arson this week. a mirror of thanks to Jason Ryberg and Kung Fu Treachery Press.
Ghost Arson is Barton Smock’s first non self-published, full-length collection of poetry (62 pages) and is set for release December 2018 via Kung Fu Treachery Press.
book is 15.00
/ orders 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
**all copies will be signed
or one can send a check to:
Barton Smock
5155 Hatfield Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
wanted to say briefly and to brush with spotlight that if, giving, to other or to self or to other self, please consider putting some eyes on The Glass Chapbook Series. being myself a reader and writer, though loosely, though honestly…would use those labels to say that Glass puts out work that is, well, deeply seen.
series:
http://www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks.html
I’ve tried to say, here and there:
How to Cook a Ghost, Logan February:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/11/28/how-to-cook-a-ghost-poems-logan-february/
The Unbnd Verses, Kwame Opoku-Duku:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/11/05/the-unbnd-verses-poems-kwame-opoku-duku/
As If, Anna Meister:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/17/as-if-poems-anna-meister/
What Is Not Beautiful, Adeeba Shahid Talukder:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/21/what-is-not-beautiful-poems-adeeba-shahid-talukder/
Bad Anatomy, Hannah Cohen:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/25/bad-anatomy-poems-hannah-cohen/
ghost exhibit, Melissa Atkinson Mercer:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/17/ghost-exhibit-poems-melissa-atkinson-mercer/
also, Anthony Frame, editor of Glass, has a wonderful collection, Where Wind Meets Wing:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/08/where-wind-meets-wing-poems-anthony-frame/
pushcart nominations. a small thing to each, here and not.
Triin Paja
~~~Though Her Knees Touched The Soil
~~published on-site June 19th, 2018
~in volume fourth printed July 2018
Jon Cone
~~~Sleds Made of Bone
~~published on-site March 7th, 2018
~in volume third printed April 2018
Rishitha Shetty
~~~Prayersong
~~published on-site March 15th, 2018
~in volume third printed April 2018
Sophia Naz
~~~Thirty Three Inuit Names of Snow
~~published on-site February 22nd, 2018
~in volume second printed March 2018
Andrew Kozma
~~~Song of the Coming to Terms With It
~~published on-site March 19th, 2018
~in volume third printed April 2018
Cynthia Manick
~~~In My Heaven
~~published on-site October 15th, 2018
~in volume sixth to print December 2018
~
Triin Paja
Though Her Knees Touched The Soil
when you find her crying by a radio
tell her about small yellow plums
plucked from small yellow…
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have these, on my person, now.
received my first copies of Ghost Arson today. a mirror of thanks to Jason Ryberg and Kung Fu Treachery Press.
Ghost Arson is Barton Smock’s first non self-published, full-length collection of poetry (62 pages) and is set for release December 2018 via Kung Fu Treachery Press.
book is 15.00
/ pre-orders 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
**all copies will be signed
or one can send a check to:
Barton Smock
5155 Hatfield Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
~
if interested in reviewing, please inquire at ghostarson@gmail.com
when little
of one is left
one
is born
my son’s
look
is not
far off
(fish
they struggle
in the water’s
hair
mother
can talk
to despair. god
is the verb
we use
to mean
to miss
suddenly.
(you are not your person
poor stone
to have never
been painted
(a child
becomes a place, forgets
being born
there is
(a second lookalike (angels
are ugly & some
know the sex
of your ghost (how birdly
of her
to un
the alone
in the jesus
of her legless
(light
kingsoftrain 