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July 29, 2016 / barton smock

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older poems

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[dream’s fossil]

dear eggshell belly. dear mother. dear church of my father’s owl. dear Ohio. dear owl the deaf bee’s church.

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[the lost]

before it is dark enough to carry the television into the forest and leave it, a mother checks the oven for her loaf of black bread. her overseas child follows a dead fly to another dead fly and so on. her sensitive brother turns over in his grave to be on all fours. her wiser husband rips the cord from the base of the television and uses it to whip the basement door. when the door opens, any dog will do.

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[men hermetic]

the crow
the fine print
of nowhere.

the bomb shelter
the rumored locale
of a mother’s
laundry room.

the bare cross
the teething
toy
a baby
bypasses
for the neck
of the woman
waiting
for her junk
to fall.

the mare
the anxious
bike.

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[cessation psalm]

the less said about god’s addiction to brevity

as heard
by the angel
of birth

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as such:

~shuteye in the land of the sacred commoner [& other poems]

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~MOON tattoo

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July 27, 2016 / barton smock

make trough

some eyeless thing eating for none

a volunteer
to snipe
the crucified
dentist

appetite’s bedsore

a baby taking up for a chicken

July 25, 2016 / barton smock

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some poems from books available:

[male music]

in the creek of tomato silence
where my father saw
what it was
god
could not eat
there lives
a tiny whale
fooled
by emptiness

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[afteresque]

what bone am I, stillness?

what can I tell my son
I carried?

what is it knows me
that isn’t god
by the humans
I am
in my sleep?

infancy, what overtakes
your period
of mourning?

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[pocket]

I am kicking myself over the surprise my brain ruined. nearby, a man misremembers his trip to heaven while a woman blames herself for making it doubly hard to leave. the size of my death is the size of any deer would die for a sugarcube. my father can’t find what he’s wearing that isn’t his. mother she is off buying foods that share a ghost. I call to my sister but know openly she hasn’t been deaf from the day god believed her legs were part frog. I have not heard of the spoon that has a past. something in my stomach wants to see a star.

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[church bell]

the waters recede and god

good for him
saves

with the carcass
of a deer

mama’s
parking spot

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unrelated, I have begun to see

the fat kid we surrounded for pulling a knife on a bird

July 25, 2016 / barton smock

wrong teeth

the boy
is today
a bloodhound
tracking
the lone
acolyte
of his mother’s
handprints. as another,

he once
led
a horse
to a woman’s
watermark…

/ give suicide someone to widow

July 25, 2016 / barton smock

arena

the boys are off to hang a turtle. I didn’t know I felt nothing. her father impressed a piano from puppet heaven. but pregnancy was all god knew.

July 24, 2016 / barton smock

depictions of reentry (xxii)

I was
for desperation
a woman
crawling away
from her walker.

I still, gender, have
your raincloud.

/ nothing whispered is a language.

the mouth chews on its ghost.

July 23, 2016 / barton smock

depictions of reentry (xxi)

the barn
bat
with the eyes
of a diver’s
shadow…

the dads were all digging
the nudes
were thinking
small

every chair
an electric
chair

in daylight, that motherless grief

July 22, 2016 / barton smock

depictions of reentry (xx)

it’s my turn with the body

/ I was thinking church
but meant
museum

/ brother is horrified

/ he’s made
this face
before

/ I was saying
in the oven
of the observable
crow
this hologram
is the butcher’s
pajamas

/ I was thinking
fork
that’s not
how telepathy
works

July 22, 2016 / barton smock

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also, my Dink Press chapbook [infant*cinema] is available here:

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note: I do have three signed copies of the chapbook available for free to anyone willing to write a review

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a recent review of my book [MOON tattoo]:

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(look away)

July 22, 2016 / barton smock

I’m a different person when my son is sick

ask a man what a rabbit hole means
he’ll say
logistics

/ everything I had was in that mirror