who was it / lord / did / your stitches
(it is not
like losing
an oar)
turtle
can you sense
your twin
to enter
too early
the long
illness
of world
oh school
of fish
this way
to shadow’s
wedding
oh heartless
deer
hornless
train
oh son
whose dream
could burn
a spotlight / &
whose brain
could break
with birdlike
amens
the earthworm’s
bone
{isacoustic*}
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image-based absence.
/structurally sound offhandedness.
//unreliable clarity.
///purpose.
what the editors are not looking for:
/misogyny. empty objectification. toward, or of, the body. toward, or of, the spirit.
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contributor sample:
Tara Ballard
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/24/person-tara-ballard-five-poems/
Ed Churchouse
https://isacoustic.com/2017/12/18/person-ed-churchouse-four-poems/
Jessica Dawson
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/21/person-jessica-dawson-three-poems/
Kelli Allen
https://isacoustic.com/2018/01/08/person-kelli-allen-one-poem/
Marisol Baca
https://isacoustic.com/2018/02/23/person-marisol-baca-four-poems/
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reviews, reflections on-site:
VOID SETS by Michelle Gottschlich:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/24/void-sets-poems-michelle-gottschlich/
Inquisition by Kazim Ali:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/19/inquisition-poems-kazim-ali/
Third-Millennium Heart,by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen:
Third-Millennium Heart – poetry – Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Adrenalin by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated by Catherine Cobham:
One Throne by Rae Hoffman Jager:
hooked through by Sara Moore Wagner:
Saudade by Traci Brimhall:
Indictus by Natalie Eilbert:
Two Towns Over by Darren C. Demaree:
Portrait of a Body in Wreckages by Meghan McClure:
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isacoustic.com
flicking cigarettes from the highest car of a stopped ferris wheel, we sing at how sex is the centaur’s trap door. you
are telling rain
not to look. there are jobs
no one gets. abacus / mascara / there are words
responsible
for your mother’s
face. it is more pregnant
to bury
a footprint.
I don’t know anything about swans
but there will be one
at the parade
so I am planning
to go
not to learn
about swan
but to see
their swan
my swan
unless of course
I see a swan
between now
and then
a swan
that is maybe
sick
what happened
swan
to the lightning
that drank
our milk
grief
is a red-haired jesus
whose barber
puts a dollhouse
mirror
on my mother’s
tongue
blood
is water’s
favorite
child
at the baptism
some agree
that my father
knows
his milk, others
that any creature
on four legs
has one
ghost
knows how
to swim
i.
where also
her belly button
doubles
as air
for any
shoebox
crow
resurrecting
erasure
poems
from god’s
past…
ii.
the caterpillar
dead
where ants
come to pray
Maayan Avery has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/25/person-maayan-avery-three-poems/
coupon code change: thru March 26th, Lulu is offering free shipping or 50% off ground shipping on all print products with coupon code of SHIPIT2018
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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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PDFs of some collections available at gumroad: https://gumroad.com/bartonsmock
call for submissions: https://isacoustic.wordpress.com
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