kingsoftrain

November 7, 2018 / barton smock

squirrel parts

a stick is praying for my shadow and you say eat. your mom has a toothache but is jumping rope. I haven’t seen a man chew bread in person. you call baby a dug-up hand.

November 6, 2018 / barton smock

it’s not a children’s book but does have chameleons looking for their dead. I wrote it might you remember that I’ll watch anything. my brother lifting weights while he says resurrection that lonely mouthful. horror movies to win back my abuser.

November 5, 2018 / barton smock

The Unbnd Verses / poems / Kwame Opoku-Duku

ISACOUSTIC*

The Unbnd Verses
poems, Kwame Opoku-Duku
Glass Poetry, 2018

~

‘maybe we are
bald headed
acolytes

searching for
the remains of
our masters/’ – fromvi. cowboyz

In poet Kwame Opoku-Duku’s work, The Unbnd Verses, in which each entry sets a circle free, mystery is a mere clue left for a personhood that is beyond the scope of belief. Inquiry is a beauty mark made holy by the non-answerable. If loss stops at loss, and one is ghostless, how is it that existentialism runs in the family and how much of this is real? If this is the silence of god, why can’t our lord name one person he’s had to bury? This writing is an act of hearing. And the words arrive, and the choirs listen.

~

reflection by Barton Smock

~

book is here:

http://www.glass-poetry.com/chapbooks/unbnd-verses.html

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November 3, 2018 / barton smock

materials (xxix)

with my body as a thing that existed from the waist-up, I became to swimming what I’d been to lightning and told my brothers that to dream they had to fall asleep before god touched his food. loneliness left its skinny tree and followed my mother into an outhouse where once her sister had counted smoke-rings and where twice they’d sung for their mouths the one about zero the forgotten letter. my father looked at me and I at my son. time waiting to create the sick.

November 2, 2018 / barton smock

separations for unlikeness

in those moments when non-fiction scares only the grey brainchild of poverty

(that fucking angel disrobing a stone with fog…

please read
to feel
nothing

November 1, 2018 / barton smock

{on changes and sameness}

/

dying brother with microscope

last night
a horse
left Ohio
and waited
seven seconds
before
clopping back

(all cats had my sister’s tongue)

angels
had fingernails

and fish food
taste

/

palimpsest

illness
as diary
we

are underwater
where eating
was discovered

(this is our
joke
that on land
god is waiting
to cut
a birthday cake
for the non
born
the non
below…

our grief comes in pairs
to the animal
it looks
most like

/

ankle musics

i.

nothing’s unabsorbed twin

ii.

pronouns / for faith

iii.

a jester,
in night clothes, a jailed

iv.

fork…

v.

when was it
these mirrors
touched

/

October 31, 2018 / barton smock

grief will require that your language learn another

(we are trying to limit
screen time
as our son
was known
as the one
being sad
for bigfoot

(it takes seconds for a bath
to fill
a mirror
with…

(I am trying to tell you that I went to the party

& that I swore there
on the lives
your children
led

(when dressed
as mine

October 31, 2018 / barton smock

{ isacoustic.com }

so, some notes, from and in regards to isacoustic* (isacoustic.com)

I am behind on everything. one person endeavors for which perhaps I am not always the right person. on that note, sans grace, volume fifth of {isacoustic*} will be printed later this month, as opposed to last. any submissions accepted from this point will be included in volume sixth.

I love you all. those here, those coming, those waiting.

other:

i.

check out former contributor Asante Keron Hamid’s guest editing of Glass Poetry’s Poets Resist series, here:

http://www.glass-poetry.com/poets-resist/archives.html

you can read Asante Keron Hamid’s work on {isacoustic*} here:

https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/09/person-asante-keron-hamid-three-poems/

ii.

check out former contributor Natasha Kochicheril Moni’s new publication, A Nation (Imagined), here:

A Nation (Imagined)

you can read Natasha Kochicheril Moni’s work on {isacoustic*} here:

https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/09/person-natasha-kochicheril-moni-five-poems/

iii.

Poet Camonghne Felix has a new book, Build Yourself a Boat, here:

I had, and still have, some words for the previous work, here:

on Yolk by Camonghne Felix:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/19/yolk-poems-camonghne-felix/

iv.

check out this lineup of writers and their work, which will appear in volume fifth of {isacoustic*}

CONTRIBUTORS, volume fifth (to print mid November 2018):

Amy Soricelli
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/person-amy-soricelli-one-poem/

Kristin Garth
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/person-kristin-garth-one-poem/

Kat Giordano
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/person-kat-giordano-three-poems/

Nadia Wolnisty
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/10/person-nadia-wolnisty-three-poems/

Rebecca Kokitus
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/10/person-rebecca-kokitus-one-poem/

Cathryn Shea
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/11/person-cathryn-shea-one-poem/

James Diaz
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/12/person-james-diaz-one-poem/

Alicia Cole
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/12/person-alicia-cole-two-poems/

Suzanne Edison
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/13/person-suzanne-edison-one-poem/

Donna Vorreyer
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/17/person-donna-vorreyer-two-poems/

Elijah Tomaszewski
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/23/person-elijah-tomaszewski-two-poems/

Lucy Harlow
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/24/person-lucy-harlow-one-poem/

Wanda Deglane
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/26/person-wanda-deglane-one-poem/

Matt Morris
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/27/person-matt-morris-two-poems/

Linzi Garcia
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/30/person-linzi-garcia-one-poem/

Holly Lyn Walrath
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/30/person-holly-lyn-walrath-two-poems/

Phoebe Wagner
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/30/person-phoebe-wagner-five-sonnet-sequence/

Jason Ryberg
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/02/person-jason-ryberg-one-poem/

Natasha Kochicheril Moni
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/09/person-natasha-kochicheril-moni-five-poems/

Marisa Crane
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/12/person-marisa-crane-two-poems/

Visar
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/13/person-visar-two-poems/

Simon Henry Stein
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/14/person-simon-henry-stein/

Erik Fuhrer
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/17/person-erik-fuhrer-one-poem/

Rachel Nix
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/24/person-rachel-nix-four-poems/

David Bankson
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/24/person-david-bankson-two-poems/

Geraldine Fernandez
https://isacoustic.com/2018/08/27/person-geraldine-fernandez-one-poem/

Christie Suyanto
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/01/person-christie-suyanto-one-poem/

Michael Prihoda
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/03/person-michael-prihoda-two-poems/

T.M. Strong
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/07/person-t-m-strong-two-poems/

Kristin Garth
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/14/person-kristin-garth-from-candy-cigarette/

Arushi Singh
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/14/person-arushi-singh-two-poems/

J.J. Steinfeld
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/17/person-j-j-steinfeld-one-poem/

Mike Ferguson
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/17/person-mike-ferguson-two-poems/

Danielle Hanson
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/22/person-danielle-hanson-two-poems/

Leah Mueller
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/25/person-leah-mueller-two-poems/

Kate Garrett
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/27/person-kate-garrett-four-poems/

Ashley Bullen-Cutting
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/29/person-ashley-bullen-cutting-poem/

Thomas Tyrrell
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/04/person-thomas-tyrrell-two-poems/

Glen Armstrong
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/04/person-glen-armstrong-one-poem/

Coreen Hampson
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/09/person-coreen-hampson-one-poem/

Alexandre Ferrere
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/09/person-alexandre-ferrere-one-poem/

Joseph Murphy
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/09/person-joseph-murphy-three-poems/

Jessie Lynn McMains
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/10/person-jessie-lynn-mcmains-two-poems/

Mela Blust
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/11/person-mela-blust-one-poem/

Cynthia Manick
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/15/person-cynthia-manick-five-poems/

Kristin Garth
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/18/person-kristin-garth-one-poem-2/

Renwick Berchild
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/18/person-renwick-berchild-two-poems/

Stuart Buck
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/19/person-stuart-buck-two-poems/

Heidi Turner
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/19/person-heidi-turner-two-poems/

Jonathan Witte
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/19/person-jonathan-witte-four-poems/

Aytan Laleh
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/22/person-aytan-laleh-two-poems/

Zsa Zsa Mendoza
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/22/person-zsa-zsa-mendoza-one-poem/

M; Margo
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/23/person-m-margo-one-poem/

Victoria Nordlund
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/23/person-victoria-nordlund-one-poem/

Hal Y Zhang
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/23/person-hal-y-zhang-one-poem/

Kristin Fullerton
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/25/person-kristin-fullerton-one-poem/

Regis Louis Coustillac
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/26/person-regis-louis-coustillac-two-poems/

Isla McKetta
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/29/person-isla-mcketta-one-poem/

Heath Brougher
https://isacoustic.com/2018/10/29/person-heath-brougher-one-poem/

v.

to support {isacoustic*}:

paypal donation link: https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock or to (bartsmock@gmail.com)

*for donations of 5.00 or more, one will receive a privately self-published work of mine consisting of 60 poems called ~mood piece for baby blur~

October 30, 2018 / barton smock

sun

poolside
one hears
a brother
tell a sister
it’s like tickling
a scarecrow
when do you
love god
I love god
while I’m eating
I have a mom
does everything
quickly
a father
who rubs his head
who thinks
every kid
on a bike
is a unicorn
the cigarettes
are gone
if I see
a spider
I see
it has the memory
of an angel

October 30, 2018 / barton smock

/\

OTHERS

i.

Poet Camonghne Felix has a new book, Build Yourself a Boat, and really it’s a must:

I had, and still have, some words for the previous work, here:

on Yolk by Camonghne Felix:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/19/yolk-poems-camonghne-felix/

ii.

{isacoustic*} released Heather Minette’s Half Light in June- please check it out.

for purchase:

from Barnes and Noble
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/half-light-heather-minette/1128985743?ean=9781387874200

from Amazon

Half Light on goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40533588-half-light?from_search=true

reviews of Half Light:

by George Salis:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/20/a-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light-by-george-salis/

by Sara Moore Wagner:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/18/sara-moore-wagners-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light/

by Crystal Stone:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/a-review-by-crystal-stone-of-heather-minettes-half-light/

iii.

be sure to check out some recent poets who have work at {isacoustic*}:

Aytan Laleh:
http://isacoustic.com/2018/10/22/person-aytan-laleh-two-poems/

Jonathan Witte:
http://isacoustic.com/2018/10/19/person-jonathan-witte-four-poems/

~

SELF

i.

I started a patreon account here:

https://www.patreon.com/bartonsmock

patreon statement:

in the doing of a thing there is often a lull and in that lull a curvature of worry that perhaps something has too quickly taken shape and so one might be led to explore creating, not to make, but to evoke and I will attempt, here, to do that and hope it is a space that takes up only its own.

patreon public posts:

the here

{ halvings / flawless absence / motherlings & goodbyes / recent, w/ motherlings / one has in Ohio that crucial dream / so nostalgic and bored, now, the angel of distance… / further separations / separations for unlikeness, w/ outro / houndlings / materials / god’s blue puppy / materials Q & A / materials & brevities / the home life of victims / the upper body of the minotaur lost everything / gestural transportation / rabbit horns / a gun goes off in a dream I don’t have anymore }

the there

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22396759

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22288964

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22167517

https://www.patreon.com/posts/22002039

https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-has-in-ohio-21869159

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21657805

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21496604

https://www.patreon.com/posts/21394988

https://www.patreon.com/posts/houndlings-21022223

https://www.patreon.com/posts/materials-20800274

https://www.patreon.com/posts/20779674