/versation, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry, Recommended

on [rocks have the softest shadows] by Barton Smock

I’m late on this one and rightly offer apologies. Bart’s got a few books out and you should go find them. Go here. A conversation with him is going to feature on an upcoming episode o my peripatically published indie publishing Podcast, THE SLUDGE REVIEW.

"god's been gone nine months and all this talk he's done of being
stabbed in a dollhouse struggles to fill a baby (do animals have songs"

all this talk / see / and what is they’re showing
this moment all soaked in mock rock urine dried
like young ageless sea sand gritting tween the toes
clenched and chaffing raw

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