after months
of correspondence
the babies
meet
not underwater, no
–
what a stone
is
is a stone
looking
for its mouth
–
call what slows
(place)
the heart of grief
is it written or is it said that the word tells you its language?
I built my house around a crying baby.
–
Q: sister spotlight has a brother
A: whose blood is a stop sign
ISACOUSTIC*, January 2018, volume first
is available now, here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/isacoustic-volume-first/paperback/product-23483920.html
includes the serious undertakings of:
Jon Cone
Adam Hughes
Leanne Drapeau
Agnieszka Mauch
Amelia Kester
Brian Dawson
Ed Churchouse
Jill Chan
Arvind Joshi
Gayle McCreery
Robert Okaji
Kelli Allen
Daniel Paul Marshall
Charlotte Hamrick
Nicholas Christian
Tim Miller
/
Tim Miller has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
it knows, the lesser
pig, not to eat
its own
blindness
and I quote
not father
but father’s
language
two ways
to lose
an eye
Nicholas Christian has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
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
Charlotte Hamrick has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
Daniel Paul Marshall has three poems at ~ isacoustic* ~
death in its dream home
had a psalmic
memory
to rival
odd-numbered
women. hell was empty
and we wrote
what words
believed
