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Stone Circle Review Jul 7, 2024

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"

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hem of inner lining comes undone

by Bobbi Lurie don’t die so easy pilfering pills still wanting to live hanging on by a thread reprimanding myself lack of courage brings deep regret service to others is the first rule seeing this homeless woman on the street in front of me murder me murder me murder me and those who emulate but spare themselves a letter such as this requires so much silence

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Stone Circle Review Jul 6, 2024

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."

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Of The Motel In California

by Dale Cottingham Searing, seared: where he shrivels from her after trying one last time. One way the self, having grown used to a surround, sees it— suddenly, starkly, stunned by it— for what it is. Outside, cars, trucks on the Interstate downshift, over-shift, make efforts to slow down, speed up, heading to a future, what can be bright, or painful, yet to

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Stone Circle Review Jun 30, 2024

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."

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Twirling Dandelions

by Shome Dasgupta Green and yellow—a sparked field where we taped four leaf clovers together, forgetting the meaning of living at home and pondering magical ways to steal ice cream from the pink and purple and blue truck coming around the turn— we run with our hands together. We run with pebbles in our palms, asking for the cheapest cardboard cups of vanilla with chocolate syrup. We

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Stone Circle Review Jun 29, 2024

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"

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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 she sways her hips, fleshy, ragged pit in a sticky hand chin glistening with juice glissade, renegade, drop it like it’s hot she dances, resinous and sweet. I moved away, it’s been years since I have seen her— when I scrape a blade through flesh embracing pit, I remember my friend and regrets

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Stone Circle Review Jun 23, 2024

NEW POEM #142: "Atonement" by Michael Akuchie

"For years, I accepted the theory that
God’s mercy had an ending."

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Atonement

by Michael Akuchie For years, I accepted the theory that God’s mercy had an ending. So I stopped soliciting for myself, my country, and the homeless man whose pleas for a kind act rattled the gate that kept my mind from working itself to madness. I carved a distance too vast for a forest to fit. Meeting you made me remember how to make

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Stone Circle Review Jun 22, 2024

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."

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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. Best I leave this as I first found it (drunk on indifference the King of Empty Cups) and hope that perhaps in time she will forgive my hesitant gratitude because you never can tell one day this pain might just be useful but oh dear God the cost. Lindsay

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Stone Circle Review Jun 16, 2024

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."

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Evolution

by George Taxon In a trough, an ingrown pyramid scheme thrives. A glitch? Glib. Soluble. In a stagnant pool of bliss. Sapiens. Who? Me, trying to float, trying to leave this rocky ocean behind. It’s dark down here on this shelf, where the deflated myths of the past continue to settle. Up above, I’m not sure if I belong, my dreams won’t hold water, slapped together with rust and artificial tears. Damn. Another dawn, and I taste mildew in my bubble of

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Stone Circle Review Jun 15, 2024

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"

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Seven Snapshots From the Album of a Sea Policeman

by Mike O’Brien I Crouching on his haunches, The Sea Policeman looks into the lifeless eye of a cow It had wandered too near the edge of the crumbling cliff above When it fell onto the shingle It must have landed with a real thud II He holds the barnacle encrusted frame of a child’s bicycle Look at his boots sinking into the

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Stone Circle Review Jun 9, 2024

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."

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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. If I was a weasel. Or trout. Setting matters as much as the species. In a brook over blue-gray stones or the Cuyahoga River between flare-ups. I can’t picture a creature without a place. Then I think of decisions: where the possum

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Stone Circle Review Jun 8, 2024

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"

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acute

by Mathew Yates nerve-raw as ever you saw, busted up blue & blooded like the catfish on the dock, like the predawn stumble of a cooper’s hawk hatchling unto the underbrush, thrust into a corner the color of sky, falling even on the ground, buried alive in clouds & condensation & rain, the mud-flooded drain at the end of the

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