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October 3, 2017 / barton smock

food (xii)

keep the baby

eats
during thunderstorms

October 3, 2017 / barton smock

food (xi)

the evil was mine, the face wasn’t. some were delivered by one who wore a monster mask.

the smallest mouth guard. viruses

transmitted
by dream

October 3, 2017 / barton smock

{basic}

20% off all print books at Lulu today with coupon code of LULU20.

my newest is here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/l-a-i-t-y/paperback/product-23332280.html

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some places where I’ve been said to say:

Gazing Grain Press:
http://www.gazinggrainpress.com/#!Poet-Barton-Smock-on-Trauma-Feminism-Self-Publishing/cxj4/56063dbf0cf2f0ed7a222fa8

WritersDigest:
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/write-poetry-barton-smock

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some dates and things:

I have privately published a book titled {in this life another is you} which is a gathering of 50+ unpublished / unavailable / non-displayed / non-posted poems of mine. I am making it available for 3.00 via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com) or by using this link: https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock.  all monies I receive for the book will be sent to a poet friend of mine who was injured while clearing debris for others after Hurricane Irma. books will be shipped on October 13th.

also, through the end of October, any monies I receive from the sales of my self-published books on Lulu will be added to and for same.

October 3, 2017 / barton smock

eternity is god’s search for a mirror

close by, a man is relearning how to cradle his corrected son.

my luck
the alien
I saw
was disabled

October 2, 2017 / barton smock

the mothers

from ghost-written diaries
a constant identity

late
for its own
resurrection

October 1, 2017 / barton smock

food (x)

my stories go nowhere.

god
and his tree
of hunger

October 1, 2017 / barton smock

grown woman crying at the state of her teeth

two ears
at once
her wounded
boy

sleep has one god

absence, none

the cough
he had
the week
he was missing

September 27, 2017 / barton smock

passings

clown car
too much
for ghost

September 27, 2017 / barton smock

surgery, age eight

these names, before you were born. colorblind orphan, yawnless fish. ghost with calendar.

look at me
when I’m invisible

September 26, 2017 / barton smock

{gratis}

deep and sincere thanks to all who’ve taken part so far in this small, below, thing:

I have privately published a book titled {in this life another is you} which is a gathering of 50+ unpublished / unavailable / non-displayed poems of mine. I am making it available for 3.00 via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com). all monies I receive for the book will be sent to a poet friend of mine who was injured while clearing debris for others after Hurricane Irma. books will be shipped on October 13th.

also, through the end of October, any monies I receive from the sales of my self-published books on Lulu will be added to and for same.

my most recent book, {L A I T Y}, is here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/l-a-i-t-y/paperback/product-23332280.html

*currently, through 9/28, Lulu is offering a 25% discount on all print books with coupon code of LULU25