Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH with his wife and four children. He is the author of the chapbook infant* cinema (Dink Press, 2016) and editor of isacoustic* (isacoustic.com)

Materials

eating for the child lost by ghost, you are the second of

three people who know god’s middle name. oh how I’ve

written to avoid reading. to impress death.

a babysitter’s tattoo. the bird-sleep of ache.

-Barton Smock