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all my available self-published works are there, here:

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as always, will send free PDF of any work to anyone requesting and free hard copy of any work to anyone interested in writing a review. message me at bartonsmock@yahoo.com

*book previews on site are books entire

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SOME READINGS DONE BY ME, IN ALL UGLINESS:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WuSKK8yNnngtdNlb5NfwQ

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POEMS, MISC:

[thirst rag]

mouth a souvenir from the exodus of shapes-

her mom
ate something
blue

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[archetype]

we put your favorite chair in your favorite place to stand. you are still as human as the suppression of appetite. people drift in and out of weird dogs that your brothers call grief and your sister the aliens that remember god.

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[lost priest]

I come from a place where a school bus hits a dog and the bus driver barks and all her kids play dead

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[boy in darkness]

blood is a movie and none of it

yours

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[the story outside]

a boy in a diaper
covered in flour

a sadness specific to elevators

cocoon
on every
menu

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[fragment]

forgiveness
was always
assault

/ visions mutter
in the ghost
of my stomach, film

is low
fruit

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[crib wasp]

god to slow spread of reincarnation

this, from death’s
newspaper

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found: nose of the crow-eyed infant

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[head-kisser]

a runway model
in a cornfield

/ the stone a short film on snowfall

POEMS FROM {surprise for me a crow}:

[birdthings]

/ those who’ve boiled mouthwash in a baby’s bottle

/ my ice-fishing father’s crystal ball

/ the leaf
that prays
for hand

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[in no language]

does echo
have a word
for dream

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[cult notes]

to find
in the moments
after
the vision
that yes
you’ve eaten
everything
in sight, that a baby

yours
or not

is asleep
in a somersault, that you worshiped

prayer and fell

for hunger’s
childhood

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POEMS FROM {name calling}:

[entries for dimension]

at birth
it says
iceberg, and then

crown

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I have this story that can put
for you
a banana peel

on the floor
of the delivery room, this other

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with a scarecrow
midway through it

looking all
tore up
like it was used

last night
as a fork

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[entries for surrender]

sorrow the mudwrestler of my drought

whose tooth fairy
does
impressions

can we erase
what silence
films

a dog
a smaller
prison

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[entries for loss]

can we stop this talk of the baby cut in half and ask why this town has two graveyards. show me a dog showing an angel where to dig. the brothers have all gone underwater to raise money for hand signals and the sisters have taken from a tale of snowfall an orgasm to amnesia’s headstone. the parts of the movie you look at

vanish. it’s my fault there’s a god.

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POEMS FROM {paw five}:

[transformative melancholies]

frog
in the throat
of a lowing
cow

dad, smoking

two nearby deer
nosing that headlight
into place

poem is dead

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[father with his stomach missing]

a fishhook left in a dream

a peeping
tom’s
basilisk

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[farness]

the last robot to name its baby.

two smokers
back-to-back
in the high
corn.

the spoonfeeder’s ferris wheel.

litterbug’s
shadow.

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[anklebiters]

what in the history of blood
has blood
discovered

mom is hanging laundry from the future

regret is still looking
for a god

I learn cocoon
and boyishly
cross my legs

the lightning
when you saw it
was it clean

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RECENT POEMS:

[some near thing]

it’s late. my kids laugh in a dirty kitchen. I am in the hallway having just killed a wasp for looking like hunger. the wasp is in my hand. I can’t move. the boy who touched all the eggs.

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[the poor don’t get amnesia]

snake was made
from the bones
of a circle

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[toys made in human silence]

the rock thrown by an only child. the wasp the seashell of a mother’s desert. the zookeeper’s raft.

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[atomy]

the white doghouse. the closed drive-in. the animal we shared to avoid miracle. our empty child

mostly
from books.

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AND:

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