mother’s
farsick
palm, father’s
pack
of disappearing
nails-
our goldfish
insomnia
the private sobbing of my mother’s hair
how much
did you hear
you death, you hoarder of sick days
if I wheel / my son / do dog
walkers pray
we have in my city a museum just like this. I, too, am private and have lost an unabsorbed child. I am,
inventory, very motherly.
this one-man radio show about a father looking for his mouth. this tornado.
my first owl was a bee-loving tick. my first milk
was jigsaw
milk. being alone went by so fast.
work posted by recent contributors at {isacoustic*}:
Lydia Renfro
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/16/person-lydia-renfro-two-poems/
Clara Burghelea
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/15/person-clara-burghelea-one-poem/
Chris Shorne
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/14/person-chris-shorne-two-poems/
Holly Lyn Walrath
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/14/person-holly-lyn-walrath-one-poem/
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reflection on Gillian Prew’s Three Colours Grief at {isacoustic*}:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/16/three-colours-grief-poems-gillian-prew/
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volume third of {isacoustic*}:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/13/isacoustic-volume-third-april-2018/
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note concerning private publication at {isacoustic*}:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/12/note-barton-smock/
THEN
thru April 16th, 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
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private publications are available via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com) or https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock, as such:
chapbook, [BASILISK], 64 pages $5.00
(Feb 2017)
chapbook, [the accepted field], 84 pages $5.00
(May 2017)
chapbook, [in this life another is you], 64 pages $3.00
(Oct 2017)
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AND
{isacoustic*} volume third is complete, and is available here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/isacoustic-volume-third/paperback/product-23600773.html
book preview on-site is book entire.
note: to honor the passing, the living, of poet Jill Chan…I asked those who knew Jill to contribute poems, remembrances, and the like…they appear at the end of the volume and include poems by myself, Lisa Gordon, Dd. Spungin, Tara Birch, and Maria Cinanni.
also, Mathew Paust sent his review of Jill Chan’s novel, What We Give.
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sleep
until you feel
it passing
the slow
mattress
drowsy
and afloat
designed
for god
throw anything
you can find
stick, stone, nest, honeycomb
bird
the weight
of wasp
– name
what lands
with a friend
you can touch
sand in her ear
she goes
as a seashell
her small
joke
a way
of living
on land
with the ghost
of her unbathed
child
her mother
calling clothesline
the scarecrow’s
scarecrow
kingsoftrain 