Lee Potts

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POEM 316: "The birds of the Haworth dead " by LJ Ireton (@literaryvegan.bsky.social)

"Every minute they cry,
so that you look up,
up -
the sky of the sleepers
is screaming alive;
raucous with cemetery rooks
discordant, glorious
blurring"

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POEM 315: "The Sky Above, the Brine Below" by Harrison Fisher

"And when the captains of ships
that have famously gone down
find each other, as they always do,
they sit together at the captains’ table,

which, in a moment upended,
seems to rise sideways"

stonecirclereview.com/the-sky-above

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Thank you!

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POEM 314: "Winter on My Feet" by David Hanlon (@vespertine4.bsky.social)

"Yes, I’m in my head all day again.
It’s cold in here—arctic, even.
Every inward road looks identical,
erased beneath unbroken ice.

That’s why I’m shaking."

stonecirclereview.com/winter-on/

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POEM 313: "Nailbiter" by Jason Kahler (@jasonkahler3.bsky.social)

"No one knows the anatomy of a finger like a nailbiter. Some ruins won’t heal. / I make my fingers bleed. / Overnight they bloom. Hot and swollen, they shine like dewy roses."

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POEM 312: "our meal" by Jon Raimon

"this noise
we down with dark beer
from the pantry

this coupling
we stir and stir
searching

for the one ingredient"

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POEM 311: "Public Service Announcement without Violins" by Adele Evershed (@adlibby.bsky.social)

CW: Contains sexually explicit language.

"laying me down stone by stone
like a place of worship
the deep slow build
of an ache as old as Eve"

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A poem I wrote where I process some trauma about growing up in the countryside and being homeschooled, and I continue to grapple with the question, "Were my parents terrible people?"

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My first contribution to #smallpoemsunday!

@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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POEM 310: "What you are not" by Alexa Fermeglia

"Here is the falcon,
here is the falconer.
You are not the prey
that does not know
what’s coming next,
or the bird singing its
death song
learned though its thousand years."

stonecirclereview.com/what-you/

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In honor of Valentine's Day, here is one of my rare love poems...

POEM 309: "Breaking" by Grant Clauser (@grantclauser.bsky.social)

"Pipes leaking. Cold
creeping in where the insulation’s old,
and more things waiting
broken in the garage and shed,
bedrock cracking under the foundation
and the kidnapping "

stonecirclereview.com/breaking/

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Pufferfish by Bex Hainsworth   La Specola Zoological Museum, Florence She hangs like a novelty lampshade in this bright aquarium, sterile light crimping into pale waves across the bristled balloon of her body...

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Pufferfish" by Bex Hainsworth (@poetbex.bsky.social) #Tbt

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We’ve All Been There by Erik Kennedy   I stored my plan for world peace safely in my coat pocket, and then I washed the coat. The days when I was writing the plan were dark, the nights frosty and full of agues. I don’t...

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "We’ve All Been There" by Erik Kennedy (@erikkennedy.com)

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The beauty of reading both Stone Circle poems on Sunday is that you really see the magnificent job @leepottspoet.bsky.social always does with pairing poems.

"Obviously / I am the most beautiful leaf in the world." 💖

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POEM 308: "I pretend I am a leaf" by Becki Hawkes

"I am so good
at hospitals and late-night calls
and no-commitment
kneeling. I am so good
at being a distraction and at
falling."

stonecirclereview.com/i-pretend/

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This is a great story. One of the best I've read in Clarke's World

My latest @clarkesworldmagazine.com story ‘Three Fortunes on Alcestis…’ is out today! It’s available to read for free online right here:

clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_02_26/

It’s about a tyrant and a soldier and a baby. With bonus fortune-telling and bonus bad-tempered alien goats.

POEM 307: "Unearthed" by A.D. Harper (@adharper.bsky.social)

"The wildlife that comes to my house at night is unknown to the books. Maybe / I have the wrong books. Maybe all nature books are a lie."

stonecirclereview.com/unearthed/

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a little girl with messy hair is sitting on a table with a bowl of food . ALT: a little girl with messy hair is sitting on a table with a bowl of food .

I think you need a random Stone Circle poem for what ails you - stonecirclereview.com/random/

It can't hurt.

Contributors to the Ice Floe Anthology: Ewoenam Akahoho, Roseline Mgbodichinma Anya-Okorie, Akesha Baron, Ronna Bloom, Yasmine Bolden, Velid Beganovic Borjen, Paul Brookes, Barney Ashton-Bullock, Matthew Burnside, Sue Chenette, Marian Christie, Defne Cizakca, Geraldine Clarkson, Cathy Daley, Nabina Das, Shome Dasgupta, Satya Dash, Martins Deep, Steve Denehan, Olga Dermott-Bond, Chelsea Dingman, Damien Donnelly, Birgit Lund Elston, K. Eltinaé, M.S. Evans, Suchi Govindarajan, Catherine Graham, Sue Finch, Kari Flickinger, Roger Hare, Matthew E. Henry, Elisabeth Horan, Rahma O. Jimoh, Silas Jones, Agunbiade Kehinde, Robert Frede Kenter, Rose Knapp, Laurie Koensgen, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Emma Lee, Robynne Limoges, V.C. McCabe, Spangle McQueen, Jenny Mitchell, Hasan Namir, Marcelle Newbold, Twila Newey, Lizzie Olesker, Charlotte Oliver, Niall M. Oliver, Bola Opaleke, Kunjana Parashar, Serena Piccoli, Maria S. Picone, Kushal Poddar, Lee Potts, Whiskey Radish, Khalisa Rae, Vismai Rao, Larissa Reid, Monty Reid, Andres Rojas, Moira J. Saucer, Anna Saunders, Preston Smith, Ankh Spice, Alina Stefanescu, Samuel Strathman, Claire Trévien, Bunkong Tuon, Margaret Viboolsittiseri

One of our classic best-sellers #book #anthology. While ostensibly set in the Pandemic years, it far exceeds a single focus, concentrating on interior/exterior responses to pain, illness, love, the surreal, fairy-tales, photo-works, queer, enclosure, visions. #Print

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