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March 30, 2018 / barton smock

removal musics (vi)

the death
of a closer
thing

the death
of proximity

I am in
the wrong
pill

I see / eels / exiting
my son’s
unseized
halle

          lujah / hear

him gagging
on light
that handmade

glove my mother
doubts

(calls
  for her stomach
  to leave
  the church)

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March 30, 2018 / barton smock

{smaller, pl.}

some recent things:

[returning]

my angel is a scarecrow in a sleeping bag. heaven a movie theater in spain. she walks that way because she is trying to step on her blood. the boy at the gate is lost and must choose either frankenstein’s childhood or a more diverse nostalgia. orphans on earth smell like bread.

~

[returning]

there are pictures of me sleeping that are responsible for my brother cheating on his diet. apples the shape of going home. sex addicts fighting to direct a musical about the number of people disappearing

to let death
mourn. there is a chair in an open field. a throbbing in the palm of sound’s publisher. a kid under a blanket asking god

when did she know
what perfection
was. a mouth that was a bomb

/ before I had teeth

~

[returning]

with sound
the second language
of absence, with

mother, bible, bee

(I am trying to memorize missing you

~

[returning]

you think we are the same.
your unlearn, my re-know.

our place wants the person I’m from.

church
of the removed
stitch. what I would bite

to have your mouth.

~

[returning]

a father
at peace
with how many times
his hair
has died
is standing
in a museum
before the shell
of a giant
turtle

his infant’s mouth
has gone home
to lose
its shape

he is alone
like any
grocery cart

some
cribs

~

[a scene based on the need for such]

boy

(whose blood
is a fairy tale
kept
in his brain)

(who sees himself
reciting
for threesomes
the denial
of peter)

has his mother
cut the gum
from his hair

~

[on peacelessness]

no jump
scare
this losing
of child
to sheepish
math

~

[god had never seen a hand]

eden
was a blindness

the eater
of erasable
mice

~~~~~

NOTE-

thru April 2nd, 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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March 30, 2018 / barton smock

{co / ord}

at {isacoustic*}:

i.

PERSON

Maayan Avery
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/25/person-maayan-avery-three-poems/

Howie Good
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/16/person-howie-good-two-poems/

Tim Kahl
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/19/person-tim-kahl-one-poem/

Rishitha Shetty
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/15/person-rishitha-shetty-three-poems/

ii.

PLACE

patient. by Bettina Judd:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/29/patient-poems-bettina-judd/

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:

Adrenalin – poetry – Ghayath Almadhoun

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March 29, 2018 / barton smock

changeling musics

when drunk
in the home
of a breadwinning
ghost
show secretly
birds
your body
having

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March 29, 2018 / barton smock

{reflection on – patient. – poems- Bettina Judd – at isacoustic*}

https://isacoustic.com/2018/03/29/patient-poems-bettina-judd/

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March 28, 2018 / barton smock

removal musics (v)

who was it / lord / did / your stitches

(it is not
like losing
an oar)

turtle
can you sense
your twin

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March 28, 2018 / barton smock

tug musics

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

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March 28, 2018 / barton smock

{page}

thru March 29th, Lulu is offering 15% off all print books with coupon code of FIFTEEN

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

my most recent is {everything I touch remembers being my hand}, and is here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/everything-i-touch-remembers-being-my-hand/paperback/product-23527319.html

~

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)

~

as for non self-published work, my chapbook {infant*cinema / Dink Press / 2016} is here:

https://www.dinkpress.com/store/infant-cinema-barton-smock-dp2

of which, some said, say:

i.

With sparse language, Barton Smock creates semi-prose poems that contain concentrated riddles, such as in the line “follow the spider’s trail of abandoned birthmarks” or “one of us is dreaming I entered your body.” There are clues across poems, of a broken family, of disbelief in religion and reality, and of the pain stemming from all of that and more. The question of the nature of pain itself is put forth, and its origin: “before it began to go everywhere without him, was pain god?” An evocation of both the trinity (namely, god as his own son) and a child’s jarring transition into independence, which can be destructive to the self and others, for who is so easily prepared for the world? The poems are without titles, except for the title of the chapbook as a whole: infant*cinema. “inside my father I can’t hear one tv over another. […] the people watching the fight want to be seen looking at it.” As soon as we begin to concretely process our surroundings as infants, we must absorb or cancel out competing stimuli, but even so we need to learn what is what. By then, we may have seen too much, the violence of disappointment, loneliness, and, more often than one would like to admit, mental and physical abuse. But is this what makes humans human?

~George Salis

ii.

review at Forage Poetry by Emma Hall:

https://foragepoetry.com/2016/12/02/review-of-infantcinema-by-barton-smock-emma-hall/

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March 28, 2018 / barton smock

{isacoustic.com}

{isacoustic*}

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/poems can be in the body of the email or attached, in one file, as PDF, doc, docx

//include a brief and non-clever bio

~

for unsolicited submissions:

in order to be published, [3] of the poems in the submission must be selected by the editors

~

payment for a selected submission is 15.00

/payment will be made within two months of the posting /payment can be made either by PayPal or by regular mail

//previously published and simultaneous submissions are okay

///response time is 3 days ///please inquire if that time passes (without)

////if rejected, wait a month before submitting again.

note: resubmitting is not advisable if one is doing so to lecture us on what is a fit for our site. that is not resubmitting, that is bullying.

~

every three months, the editors will self-publish a journal of the poems posted in those months. contributors who provide a physical address will receive a hard copy, others a PDF.

be sure to include a physical mailing address to send the journal to. also note how you would like to receive payment, via PayPal or by regular mail.

~

what the editors are looking for:

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.

~

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/

~

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:

Adrenalin – poetry – Ghayath Almadhoun

One Throne by Rae Hoffman Jager:

One Throne – poems – Rae Hoffman Jager

hooked through by Sara Moore Wagner:

hooked through – poems – Sara Moore Wagner

Saudade by Traci Brimhall:

Saudade – Traci Brimhall

Indictus by Natalie Eilbert:

Indictus – poems – Natalie Eilbert

Two Towns Over by Darren C. Demaree:

Two Towns Over – poems – Darren C. Demaree

Portrait of a Body in Wreckages by Meghan McClure:

Portrait of a Body in Wreckages – prose- Meghan McClure

~

isacoustic.com

 

 

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March 28, 2018 / barton smock

removal musics (iv)

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.

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