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January 9, 2018 / barton smock

{person Nicholas Christian at isacoustic*}

Nicholas Christian has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~

person Nicholas Christian, three poems

January 9, 2018 / barton smock

motel variance

fuck am I to do
boy

with a resurrected
moth

her decoy’s
clock
distracted
by time, she swims

to have
no ghost

on tv
the carpenter
dies
we adjust
his tinfoil
hat

cleaning
is in
the blood

let them think

January 9, 2018 / barton smock

{person Charlotte Hamrick at isacoustic*}

Charlotte Hamrick has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~

person Charlotte Hamrick, three poems

January 9, 2018 / barton smock

{person Daniel Paul Marshall at isacoustic*}

Daniel Paul Marshall has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~

person Daniel Paul Marshall, three poems

January 8, 2018 / barton smock

returning

death in its dream home
had a psalmic
memory
to rival
odd-numbered

women. hell was empty

and we wrote

what words
believed

January 8, 2018 / barton smock

returning

I exist / too / often

(it’s okay)

his father
had a beekeeper’s
wave

the recurring dream of my blood

is loss. dear ma,

your book
how to appear
edible
to a thoughtless
creature…

I don’t know. birth is whose

burned
hand

January 8, 2018 / barton smock

{person Kelli Allen at isacoustic*}

Kelli Allen has one poem at ~ isacoustic* ~

person Kelli Allen, one poem

January 8, 2018 / barton smock

returning

I never heard my father cough

I must
to say so
be dying

insect is a thing
cannot be
surrounded

the rich have their ghosts and the angels

their seaweed

January 6, 2018 / barton smock

seasonals

i.

hypnotized by those who feel no pain

death
is also
short

ii.

a bowl of soup
in the dark.

far off,

a turtle

January 5, 2018 / barton smock

returning

when drinking, I think maybe in a past life I also drank.

sorry, poem. absent
your suicide
hypotheticals

we all
speak silence