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
How to Cook a Ghost
poems, Logan February
Glass Poetry, 2017
~
‘what’s a starving boy to do
with his infatuation’ – fromPortrait of My Country as a Cheap Restaurant
With a voice that acts as both restorer and alleviant, Logan February’s How to Cook a Ghost holds tongue for loss and feast while keeping verse as a thing appetite might give hunger for safekeeping. What a miracle of smallness this work is, to be at once so spiritually devoured and so spiritually prepared. February is a crafter of dualities who asks mother and country Can I have your mourning and grieve it, too? while understanding that food is a trinity of drink, metaphor, and simile, and so can be made to arrive in the body as a thing waiting to exist. This book will gut you and grow there and its final poem will send you, sustained, to…
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match your mouth to its bowl
and lift the bowl
it is very light
be as with
a beaten
angel (careful
lullaby baby out of its hair
hold me (like death
will
as you’ve seen
a brain
(does it look
in places
like a ransom
note
the skin
god hasn’t
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
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if interested in reviewing, please inquire at ghostarson@gmail.com
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pre-order announcement:
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
means today that a birdfeeder can become
a campfire
for a family
of thorns
and that both
of the child’s
feet
pray
to the same
twig
kingsoftrain 