that first darkness
dad
walking backward
while puffing
a cigarette
/ the click
of mom’s
fractured
foot
with a sock in its mouth
suicide
the birthday
ghost
/ having heard
of the shadow
animal’s
ear
for the hand
puppet’s
collapse /
passes through
a wall
into a room
where a balloon
eating out
a prophet
stops not
to hiss
it goes to bed hungry
with nothing to show
for the work
its creator
consumed
it learns to read
by talking
its ugliness
is believed
to have put
in the sleepwalker’s
mouth
an extra
tooth
pulled
from your life
of trying
I slip with god into a movie about a crying baby
/ the museum
doesn’t have
a bathroom
I borrowed a bike from a haunted woman
a frog was asking me
what my mouth
had done
I was bound
for the orphan’s
shortcut
the fattest baby in the nursing home can’t chew with its eyes open.
it’s a slow day.
looking into the future
a skeleton’s
dog
sees only
sticks.
lightning
marks
the robot’s
church.
in my lifetime
the unborn
will be identified
using
the baby
you were warned
by.
the moon will die
and the owl
will stir
something
in a wolf.
a bird will say
not here
not in front
of the eggs.
‘FOUR’ is a self-published thing that includes my last four ‘works’ and some newer poems. I am hosting a giveaway for the book on Goodreads, here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/192359-four
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for purchase, the book is available on Lulu, here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/four/paperback/product-22756947.html
currently, all print books are 15% off on Lulu with coupon code of LULU15
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in other news…some have alerted me, and I have verified, that the purchase website for my chapbook ‘infant*cinema’ is indeed currently reading as expired. my apologies. I hope everything is okay over there. these things are often hotel as opposed to house.
kingsoftrain 