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July 28, 2026 / barton smock

first viral images of drone operators kissing the wrong body of christ in a loosely remembered mime cemetery

My son’s memory is always on his mind

His sickness is two sisters not murdering each other

Their surgeons
rub
a tortured
stone
July 27, 2026 / barton smock

I’m supposed to be an angel but I can’t draw a circle without crying

Adam says back pain

Eve
baby pills
July 25, 2026 / barton smock

I don’t have cancer right now

Birdbrain, god egg, blood test. Birth travels no great distance. In the dream, I tell you it's a dream. Our moms are dead. I talk about yours and you talk about yours. A mirror goes to the window to be wounded. The secret almost reaches god. 
July 22, 2026 / barton smock

our mothers poke holes in things that don’t breathe

I break my nose in front of a deer beneath a star made of ticks

My sister’s hand bleeds inside of a puppet

A naked person I don’t know loads a small gun behind the head of a grey haired child

I know the kid

Move kid
July 20, 2026 / barton smock

my life went pretty quickly from collecting jump scares for melancholy to knowing one thing about the suicide of an unusual person

I look at you all day

Touch is a painting trapped in god
July 16, 2026 / barton smock

off and on crying beside small ambulances of dog worry, I cannot sleep like a baby

None of us are great
with goodbye

An entire angel
set aside
for death
July 16, 2026 / barton smock

I’m not gentle, I’m not you

If you cut a bird open, you can hear angels lying to god

Any bird
July 14, 2026 / barton smock

lightswitch


cut the hair of rain with god’s sleep

be sad with me for a mother’s hour

eat in front of our father for a year

keep time for a light switch scraping its bored magic across the stomach of an unclicked angel

find a mask
want a stomach
July 14, 2026 / barton smock

genitalia,

genitalia 19

the mouth that flew into my mouth has begun to open in yours

mouth of god, mouth of god

how do I close the mouth of god

maybe we kissed
it didn’t
fly

no image for that

two people, Eden, a spoonful of snow
July 14, 2026 / barton smock

cause worry

No one inside the house knows the fire is empty

Feed your little shapes
shapes

A dream
in a terrified
apple

God attracted to nothing