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April 20, 2018 / barton smock

{reflection on Thaw by Chelsea Dingman at isacoustic*}

https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/20/thaw-poems-chelsea-dingman/

April 19, 2018 / barton smock

{reflection on Yolk by Camonghne Felix at isacoustic*}

https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/19/yolk-poems-camonghne-felix/

 

April 19, 2018 / barton smock

lawn musics

books on arson, grammar, vandalism…

god, multiple owners.

a typewriter
touched by father
at night.

the electric chair my brother imagined
& the hair
my sister…

adam (who’s never known the age of eve

April 18, 2018 / barton smock

toying with object permanence in kidnapper’s invisible world

how
to unfossil
the mourned
boy
kissed
we believe
on the wrist
by
(we don’t)
the last
to experience
déjà vu

April 18, 2018 / barton smock

{@at}

recent contributors at {isacoustic*}:

Michelle Bermudez
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/18/person-michelle-bermudez-two-poems/

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/

reflection on Melissa Atkinson Mercer’s ~ghost exhibit~ at {isacoustic*}:

https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/17/ghost-exhibit-poems-melissa-atkinson-mercer/

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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/

April 17, 2018 / barton smock

musics, other

mother’s
farsick
palm, father’s

pack
of disappearing
nails-

our goldfish
insomnia

April 17, 2018 / barton smock

wrist musics (viii)

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

April 17, 2018 / barton smock

{reflection on Melissa Atkinson Mercer’s ~ghost exhibit~ at isacoustic*}

https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/17/ghost-exhibit-poems-melissa-atkinson-mercer/

April 17, 2018 / barton smock

{SUCH}

thru April 19th, Lulu is offering 20% off all print books with coupon code of TWENTY18

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.com

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4/12/18:

I have privately published a work of mine consisting of 60 poems that I am calling {mood piece for baby blur}, and am making it available to anyone making a 5.00 or more donation to my poetry journal {isacoustic*}

{mood piece for baby blur} will not be made available in any form but this one.

donation can be made, here:

https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock
(bartsmock@gmail.com)

be sure to provide a physical address, to include your name, for the send.

You can check out {isacoustic*}, here:

site: https://isacoustic.com/
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April 16, 2018 / barton smock

being alone went by so fast

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.