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October 25, 2024 / barton smock

consumptions

God died doing math in a nightmare. Not everyone was able to hide the body. Men without mothers bit themselves thinking it would lead to nakedness. Angels did the same but thought nothing. Fire chased an empty bus past the cemetery of the three things I couldn’t name. Into a small life of startled handguns, people in photos were born. Gameshows, I said plainly, above a hole the ground touches for being hungry.
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October 23, 2024 / barton smock

responsoria

No one told me I was crying. 
Here is what I thought:
It can’t get lonelier 
than the birth of god.
My ribs had a message
for a toothache. Babies 
are never 
young.
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October 19, 2024 / barton smock

Tim Tim Cheng reading for the ‘I Think I Can’t Speak For Everyone Here’ series

Today's reading with Tim Tim Cheng was a restoring and taken thing. Please check it out on the 'I Think I Can't Speak For Everyone Here' youtube channel. Previous readings are listed here.
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October 18, 2024 / barton smock

hauntable gods

Fingernails, seashells, toothpaste, breastmilk

Bring 
this bomb 
into heaven
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October 18, 2024 / barton smock

PDF, Skin To Skin In An Unmarked Life, originally published March 2021 by Trainwreck Press, no longer available

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October 18, 2024 / barton smock

PDF, Ghost Arson, originally published Dec 2018 by Kung Fu Treachery Press, no longer available

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October 17, 2024 / barton smock

communions

( or maybe I hide my daughter in a ghost and these are the ghost years lost to the god of fast food whose son is a hunger pain whose son is a hunger whose son’s childishly staged crucifixion shocked time into a fomo that found eating to be a bone from an extra past where I practice chewing upside down get pregnant for no one
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October 17, 2024 / barton smock

collections, fyi, and also for mine

*All collections are pay what you want. Be sure to include your mailing address in the comments of the order, and be kind...for instance, if you are ordering a 100+ page book of poems, like, $4 is probably not a kindness. Also, all my work is posted online here at kingsoftrain.com

If not comfortable providing a physical address, you can request a PDF copy with an inquiry to bartonsmock@yahoo.com

PRIVATELY SELF-PUBLISHED WORKS 2019 forward
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Animal Masks On the Floor of the Ocean, 124 pages
poems, June 2019
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MOTHERLINGS, 52 pages
poems, June 2019
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an old idea one had of stars, 58 pages
poems, February 2020
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rocks have the softest shadows, 237 pages
poems, Dec 2020
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untouched in the capital of soon, 187 pages
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blood to bathe us in its blue past, 217 pages
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apartures, 125 pages
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deer as permission to die in ohio, 43 poems
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naked in dog years, 55 pages
April 2024
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57 Letters to Ethan Hawke or I wanted to stop saying god
August 2024
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The Crow's Book of Wrists, 193 pages
August 2024
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October 16, 2024 / barton smock

Saturday, October 19th, 3pm EST, Tim Tim Cheng reads for the ‘I Think I Can’t Speak For Everyone Here’ series

Please join us over Zoom on Saturday, October 19th, at 3pm EST for the next installment of the 'I Think I Can't Speak For Everyone Here' reading series. 

Contact bluejawedsnake@gmail.com for the Zoom info and to sign up for the open mic.

Featured reader is the amazing Tim Tim Cheng!

Tim Tim Cheng is the author of Tapping At Glass (VERVE, 2023), which was a Poetry Society Book of the Year. It explores womanhood, multilingualism and psycho-geography. Her collection The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024) is forthcoming. It navigates the relationship between the body, ecology and class. She currently lives between Glasgow  and London. She also translates between English and Chinese. timtimcheng.com

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October 16, 2024 / barton smock

communions

A ghost sets itself on fire with a cigarette once lit to mark the end of emptiness. No one cares about my body. Touch still doesn’t know that skin is the god of touch. I hide my daughter’s mouth in mine and wait for the angel of those on suicide watch to notice my teeth. The ghost is so still it’s looking at hell.
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