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Jun 2014
:church

entering the body after a stroke


:milk

my shadow made of grass


:cow

dumbly regarding another’s art


-


:radio

grandpa cursing outside then inside the barn


:distance

two babies on their backs, one a boy and one a boy, their mother
says bingo


:pyramid scheme

I am sleeping
on you, on your
insomnia


:protest

a man without sin and his two ******* birds


:unison

proving
your half
is also

unicorn


:crow

we don’t use the crow


-


:infatuation

what a knee has for its other


:owl

pillow for which the night has long been looking


:yawn

moaning
into mother
my father’s

     swimmer’s
ear


:high-dive

or a very private room


-


:***

two
as if they fear
a third


:body language

writing about yourself with others


:the future

every now and then
one is given
now and then


:suicide

might I record
this moment?


-


:abortion

beneath the highest pop fly on record


:divination

found myself alone in a ******* *******


:epitaph

easier if I imagine you are clothed


:angels

any mystique
surrounding
  a small town
   search party


:blood

this ******* from the reader of my palm


-


:terrorism

trading
back and forth
the dead
before they are
and after


:pilgrimage

one’s ****** recovery of a native alienation


:novitiate

I know my mother by the back of her hand


:drone

I don’t believe
in being
attacked


-


:chthonic

a prayer asking god to brush your teeth
Barton D Smock
Written by
Barton D Smock  48/M/Columbus, Ohio
(48/M/Columbus, Ohio)   
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   Joseph Schneider
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