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January 15, 2017 / barton smock

brother notes (ii)

I think of the wind. how all it can do is ask for mercy. do you know my mom? my sister? my daughter has a pet that disappears when famous. sadness has no opposite.

January 13, 2017 / barton smock

poem

/ not that I have two birds
but that I ask
for the stone
back

/ nothingness
edited
for space

January 13, 2017 / barton smock

passage notes

ask god how long it takes to decide on a language. remember the dead bear. the sleepy spoon. ask the soul about its weakness for image.

January 12, 2017 / barton smock

I was separated from my brothers

for fainting
in the afterlife

January 12, 2017 / barton smock

the angel of memory

its child
reenactment

and bastard

audition

January 11, 2017 / barton smock

dreamt

my eyes were invisible

January 8, 2017 / barton smock

fairness

it is hard for the nostalgic to forgive. I was raised on awareness and reincarnation. I remember, doghouse, the dollmaker’s tornado. and how to clear for my drunkest brother a mousetrap from a mountain path. believing, as a hostage would, in the taker’s amnesia.

January 7, 2017 / barton smock

lull

poor death, sleep
the shoe
that never
drops

and poorer
dream

mine of a foot being nailed to a seesaw made of light

yours
what the rabbit
did
to its knee

January 6, 2017 / barton smock

gloss

because time has to remind itself to be invented

the holy spirit
still calls
it a rubber…

movies, mental illness….

(arms

twisted
by children
of the blind

January 5, 2017 / barton smock

coda

thunderstorms
reported missing
by some
verbose
orphan