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June 26, 2018 / barton smock

{poems, span}

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barton smock's avatarkingsoftrain

[stopping to pray]

how angelic
the nervousness
of insects
offering acne
to god

/ to glacier, crow is not
yet a thing

~

[pr y]

born
there
to a sleepy
projectionist

listening
to the ear’s
brief
spider

taste of bread
in your mouth

~

[treaty, grief, moon]

no clock
fast
we live
in the house
beside the house
we bought

treaty, grief, moon

some far
tornado

some nakedness

~

[dream saw and dream tooth]

to be
as asleep
as a father’s
left leg

as a birthday
for a window

~

[kite]

even
longing
loses
me

~

[blank elegy]

after death
nothing
(oh citizen)
of god

~

[confetti, glitter, sadness.]

to get news
in heaven
from other parts
of heaven
do you know
what it’s like
god’s blood
has fleas

~

[airways]

I move
tonight
(while he’s
asleep)
my son’s
finger

across
my throat
/ everyone

wants to publish
my sister’s

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June 25, 2018 / barton smock

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

June 24, 2018 / barton smock

Kaleidoscope- from Heather Minette’s Half Light

June 24, 2018 / barton smock

Falling- from Heather Minette’s Half Light

June 23, 2018 / barton smock

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(how to) SUPPORT

i.

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 60 poems by editor Barton Smock called ~mood piece for baby blur~

ii.

submit and/or read!

iii.

also, we at {isacoustic*} have yet to find our way, but we are humbled and happy to have released Half Light by Heather Minette. Please consider getting a copy…it is such a great book. I believe in it like I believe in belief.

You can get it here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/heather-minette/half-light/paperback/product-23679092.html

review of Heather Minette’s Half Light by George Salis:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/20/a-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light-by-george-salis/

review of Heather Minette’s Half Light by Sara Moore Wagner:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/18/sara-moore-wagners-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light/

Half Light release announcement:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/15/heather-minettes-half-light-release-announcement/

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June 23, 2018 / barton smock

{ex, x}

barton smock's avatarkingsoftrain

thru June 25th, Lulu is offering 10% off all print books AND free mail shipping (or 50% off ground) with coupon code of BOOKSHIP18

/poetry collections, mine, self-published, are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acolyteroad

//all book previews on-site are books in their entirety.

///will send free hard copy to those interested in reviewing.

most recent is here:

everything I touch remembers being my hand
9.00
172 pages
published November 2017
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June 23, 2018 / barton smock

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

June 22, 2018 / barton smock

{poems, span}

[stopping to pray]

how angelic
the nervousness
of insects
offering acne
to god

/ to glacier, crow is not
yet a thing

~

[pr y]

born
there
to a sleepy
projectionist

listening
to the ear’s
brief
spider

taste of bread
in your mouth

~

[treaty, grief, moon]

no clock
fast
we live
in the house
beside the house
we bought

treaty, grief, moon

some far
tornado

some nakedness

~

[dream saw and dream tooth]

to be
as asleep
as a father’s
left leg

as a birthday
for a window

~

[kite]

even
longing
loses
me

~

[blank elegy]

after death
nothing
(oh citizen)
of god

~

[confetti, glitter, sadness.]

to get news
in heaven
from other parts
of heaven
do you know
what it’s like
god’s blood
has fleas

~

[airways]

I move
tonight
(while he’s
asleep)
my son’s
finger

across
my throat
/ everyone

wants to publish
my sister’s
ghost

~

[rare disorders in the very young (ii)]

in a nightmare

(praying over
his father
to highlight
the size
of the first
computer)

he disproves

god

(son) who breathes

for a snake
made of milk

~

[boy musics]

we’re counting cigarettes on the roof of a closed sex shop in Ohio when I tell you my father is gay. it’s too late for crow and all the deer have been hit. you have just read me three poems by your dead sister, the third of which she called dead sister. a vacuum is running below us. you ask me if I’ve ever wanted to see her handwriting. it’s nothing like yours but maybe one day.

~

NOTE:

thru June 25th, Lulu is offering 10% off all print books AND free mail shipping (or 50% off ground) with coupon code of BOOKSHIP18

/poetry collections, mine, self-published, are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/acolyteroad

//all book previews on-site are books in their entirety.

///will send free hard copy to those interested in reviewing.

most recent is here:

everything I touch remembers being my hand
9.00
172 pages
published November 2017
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/everything-i-touch-remembers-being-my-hand/paperback/product-23423003.html

June 22, 2018 / barton smock

spider bites

I lose
at times
the names
of the boys
I hid from…

not an angel, I am allowed
to love
the baby

June 22, 2018 / barton smock

On {isacoustic*}

On {isacoustic*}

INFO

editors: Barton Smock and those he happens to be talking with
contact/submit: isacousticsubmissions@gmail.com
site: https://isacoustic.com/
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Isacoustic-192435501303710/
twitter: https://twitter.com/isacousticVOL
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isacousticvol/

/

(how to) SUPPORT

i.

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 60 poems by editor Barton Smock called ~mood piece for baby blur~

ii.

submit and/or read!

iii.

also, we at {isacoustic*} have yet to find our way, but we are humbled and happy to have released Half Light by Heather Minette. Please consider getting a copy…it is such a great book. I believe in it like I believe in belief.

You can get it here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/heather-minette/half-light/paperback/product-23679092.html

review of Heather Minette’s Half Light by George Salis:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/20/a-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light-by-george-salis/

review of Heather Minette’s Half Light by Sara Moore Wagner:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/18/sara-moore-wagners-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light/

Half Light release announcement:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/15/heather-minettes-half-light-release-announcement/

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