NEW POEM #146: "hem of inner lining comes undone" by Bobbi Lurie
"a letter such as this requires
so much silence inside me now
those who emulate but spare themselves"
Stone Circle Review
Sharing poems that, like seeds, find the seams between stones and take root.
Submissions always open.
EIC: Lee Potts (@leepotts)
NEW POEM #145: "Of The Motel In California" by Dale Cottingham
"There’s a passing that we sometimes stumble / into, sometimes we think we know what to do. There are / shadows that come overhead, burden us for a time, then leave."
NEW POEM #144: "Twirling Dandelions" by Shome Dasgupta
"Side by side, that tune hummed
from our breaths—through windows,
a fox darted to the pond to amuse
minnows, where we once fished
for stars after a reckoning, years
ago."
NEW POEM #143: "Nectar" by Stephanie Frazee
"my friend says never bother
slicing a mango
eat it like a bee,
ass-deep in petals
furry with pollen
baskets bursting"
NEW POEM #142: "Atonement" by Michael Akuchie
"For years, I accepted the theory that
God’s mercy had an ending."
NEW POEM #141: "In Light of the Locusts" by Lindsay McLeod
"So
it has come to this.
The gnaw
where I find myself
getting lost on purpose
because smiling is now
frowned upon here."
NEW POEM #140: "Evolution" by George Taxon
"Up above,
I’m not sure if I belong,
my dreams won’t hold
water,
slapped together with rust
and artificial tears."
NEW POEM #139: "Seven Snapshots From the Album of a Sea Policeman" by Mike O’Brien
"A family holiday at Scarborough
He stands awkwardly on the beach with his wife and two small children
His eyes are distant - thinking of his beat
The real seaside"
NEW POEM #138: "Other Lives" by Conor Gearin
"If I was a
lavender seed, on
gravel or on good soil.
If I was a gull on kitchen
scraps or a pile of
confiscated weed."
NEW POEM #137: "acute" by Mathew Yates
"there is a cavern in a chasm underneath
the earth, where if you think alone long
enough, you can transform into dirt, or,
curled up green like a seed, you can
reach for the sun like a newborn weed"
NEW POEM #136: "To eat thorns in search of home" by Karen Soans
"can’t pretend / to love your penchant / for poison chasing"
NEW POEM #135: "Espresso Powder" by Tom Snarsky
"I opened my heart to April / and became a serious liar, full / of dolls and music and more lateral // mistakes than I’m used to making, / five eggs in the from-scratch dough."
NEW POEM #134: "Hymn for a Faith Crisis" by Taylor Franson
"Or see / only the silence they’re expecting. How many times they have called / your body temple in the same breath they called it theirs? "
CW: Religious violence/trauma
NEW POEM #133: "How We Save Others Whilst Dying" by Vikki C.
"Where we keep falling in love through wet carriage windows / — the yellow flax beyond, giving flame to a coldness we could not hold."
NEW POEM #132: "The Watch War" by Kyle Newman
"horses growing old
and breakable, sons
outgrowing gloves, meteors
flaming at random over
a weathered marbleyard"
NEW POEM #131: "September" by Satya Dash
"Caught in traffic, someone sneers
at their doppelganger before the odd twitch
of self-recognition"
NEW POEM #130: "Dark Sister" by Catherine Arra
"You arrive in concrete clouds.
Queen of unstable conditions:
joy skyrockets, a lightning flush. This love."
NEW POEM #129: "Don’t Hold It All In" by K Weber
"Crimped posture-trudged, you made yourself
smaller than a pin’s head and just as quiet.
You have breath-held and lingered long
as an ellipses… waiting to wade across water."
NEW POEM #128: "Grief Poems & Love Poems" by Matthew Isaac Sobin
"You have to be so vigilant around a poet, lest they transmute your grief; / seize the narrowest slice of life & blow it up into a world."
NEW POEM #127: "Cursing Winter" by John Walser
"Under covers we will hold
each other: the steam
of bodies glowing with happiness:
but we will know it’s winter:
that belligerence of bitter air
that dropped from the boundary waters"
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