his sister, three years away from leaving social media, has a boyfriend whose depression is a feminist. darkness lands again the role of weather. on paper, his cough is somewhere between cricket and cross.
ambush of evening, solstice spilled on stone
without animal blood but other: our true names written
where river runs her blue arms through a velvet meadow
pale one, bending to waters, with a language of seeing &
silent woods, I am obscured by every beauty
you have never belonged
fleshed with the ordinary work of death,
irreducible in otherness
black violets, marsh-lily, open as many mouths in the
open chest of diligence
the day is feasting on the innocent, reeds of sun
bound in their song
familiar world, I do not know you
what does my mad heart dream of? my fingers,
stained with the tithe of violets
a dark sea spread with voyages, shy animals,
a garden where all love is,
far from me
with only dreams to feed the soul on, I go,
through the dark wood, wings waxen
time has no name for you, the words of…
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there was a radio somewhere in the basement and we knew this because it would click on long enough for us to cover our feet and question our savior’s second go at amnesia. if I wasn’t there, I was probably trying out my father’s fastball with a grip he called the ribs of my neighbor’s dog. not long from this I was holding a baby and said what a vague hiatus. also in this order I may have said you look like a ghost and then not my finger but a finger does snap into place when I smoke.
BONE ANTLER STONE
check out this review by Daniel Paul Marshall of former contributor Tim Miller’s new book, Bone Antler Stone, from High Window Press:
check out Bone Antler Stone, here:
also, both Daniel Paul Marshall and Tim Miller have work in isacoustic*, here:
Tim Miller
https://isacoustic.com/2018/01/10/143/
Daniel Paul Marshall
https://isacoustic.com/2018/01/09/person-daniel-paul-marshall-three-poems/
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THIS BEING DONE
former contributor Stephanie L. Harper has a new book available, This Being Done, from Finishing Line Press:
also, check out Stephanie L. Harper’s work in isacoustic*, here:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/02/person-stephanie-l-harper-two-poems/
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NEPOTISM
my daughter, Mary Ann Smock, has written several pieces for The Mighty, and this is her latest:
https://themighty.com/2018/06/growing-up-with-a-sibling-disability-vici-syndrome/
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ELSE
volume fourth of {isacoustic*}, July 2018, is available here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/isacoustic-volume-fourth/paperback/product-23707103.html
also:
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…
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the collected bugs created by what haunts them
–
god the boy-dad of the specifically anonymous
–
the chores I had in that factless place
this machine
it counts
for your mother
your father’s
sheep
that’s all it does
but is very
large
(everything
from the year it broke
is remembered
by the dog
that looked
with me
at the mouse
I ate for
Suzanne Edison is the author of The Moth Eaten World, published by Finishing Line Press. Some of her poems can be found in: Persimmon Tree: About Place Journal: Rewilding issue; Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine; JAMA; SWWIM; What Rough Beast; Bombay Gin; The Naugatuck River Review; The Ekphrastic Review; and in the anthologies: Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism and Awakening, ed. Joy Harjo & Brenda Peterson; & The Healing Art of Writing, Volume One. She lives in Seattle with her family and two cats under an ever-changing sky.
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Sick Girl in the Wilderness
My mother’s evergreen face,
the one she puts on
before entering my room,
is the only God I know.
Let me be enraptured
in her fan-shaped branches,
let them cool my braised skin,
its geysering heat.
Let her outlast the black bear
eating me with its singular purpose,
as if…
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thru July 16th, Lulu is offering free mail shipping or 50% off ground with coupon code of SHIPIT2018
publications, readings, etc.
eating the animal back to life
10.00
315 pages
published July 2015
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reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5eL2HQQr2c
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the boy who touched all the eggs
11.00
258 pages
published June 2017
-this is a combined publication of three previous works (surprise for me a crow / name calling / paw five) as well as some newer poems
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/the-boy-who-touched-all-the-eggs/paperback/product-23224033.html
reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sapnBxOjtU
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L A I T Y
8.00
116 pages
published August 2017
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/l-a-i-t-y/paperback/product-23291654.html
reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oald2N2NvNM
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everything I touch remembers being my hand
9.00
172 pages
published November 2017
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reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3jEfKFDfg
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mood piece for baby blur, 60 poems, privately published June 2018
available to anyone donating 5.00 or more to {isacoustic*}
donation can be made, here:
https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock
or it can be sent to (bartsmock@gmail.com)
reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oShcu6eHA&feature=youtu.be
one can check out {isacoustic*}…
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