POEM 360: "The Fruit Cellar Is Empty" by Selby Liebert (@sqliebert.bsky.social) "we are not forgotten, only wrapped deeper, the seeds of an apple: a little sweet, a little poison, and still we are hungry, in this slumbering tree" stonecirclereview.com/the-fruit/ #Poem #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 359: "It could be worse. Consider this:" by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (@anotherintro.bsky.social) "Asteroid, christened as starlight, flames braid and hitch across the sky. A dinosaur, cow-eyed, looks. He has a nice family, all in one place" stonecirclereview.com/it-could-be/ #Poem #Poetry

POEM 358: "Bite of Mordant" by Ann Chinnis "After a year, like Glück’s wild iris, I made a passage home from another world: oblivion. Unlike her iris, no great fountain, no deep blue shadows. Lonely rhizome. Papered skin." stonecirclereview.com/bite-of/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 357: "The Reckoning of Trees" by Dolo Diaz "Drinkers of fog, spitting it back like bullets. In the dead of night, like the moon shadow of God, waiting. Perfectly still." stonecirclereview.com/the-reckoning/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

‼️The Circle is always open. I'm looking for poems that are strange enough to reward rereading, but are not so obscure that they baffle the reader. No fee. Four-week turnaround. Guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

This is where I first saw this quote. To be honest, I would be very surprised to find Susanna Crossman misattributed it.

POEM 356: "Unable, until the end" by Jonathan Grimwood (@joncg.bsky.social) "They'd decided you must be the same, with your coming and going. A little ragged, a little smart, a little held between worlds." stonecirclereview.com/unable-until/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 355: "Carcinization" by Caridad Cole "Recently I learned that everything becomes a crab or a tree and I want to feel my bones, stiff, my skin, rough, dry, sharp, and one hundred years old" stonecirclereview.com/carcinization/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 354: "Angry at the Last Days of August—" by Susan Barry-Schulz (@susanbarryschulz.com) "Don’t at least me or better place me. I am clock-stopped. Buckled and changed. Don’t try to aurora borealis me. Don’t hunter moon or comet me." stonecirclereview.com/angry-at/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

POEM 353 "Under the Blaze of August" by Charles Hensler "Under the blaze of August the car simmers in the driveway. The late sun ricochets off the pearl-grey hood, through one eye and out the other, finding every seam." stonecirclereview.com/under-the-bl... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 352: "Alma Mater Omnium Vulpes" by Laila Amado (@amadolaila.bsky.social) "Time hurries back across the quad. Fingers searching for the truth find lies, quips, quivers, candy wraps, and leeches in the mud." stonecirclereview.com/alma-mater/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 351: "Book of Agenesis" by Valerie Tirado "Ask me where it hurts and I’ll sing from the mouth of a dehiscent wound, where God once thought it wise to cleave flesh holy." stonecirclereview.com/book-of-agen... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

Here's round 2 of Stone Circle's new series, now simply called "Three Poems." I wanted more flexibility to describe how the poems are related. It includes work by Lynne Ellis, Edie Meade (@ediemeade.bsky.social), and Paula (Brown@azpaula.bsky.social). Enjoy! stonecirclereview.com/collections/...

POEM 350: "Conditions" by Jan Hassmann "The rain barrel is full, and the wasps are thriving, feasting on the lustrous wine." stonecirclereview.com/conditions/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 349: "Asterixis" by R.C. Blenis (@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social) "The liver thinks yellow thoughts. Ask anyone in hepatic failure— blood becomes philosophy" stonecirclereview.com/asterixis/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

⭕️The Circle is always open. Send your best poem. I'm looking for work that reminds the reader not everything can be measured or explained. No fee. Four-week turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

POEM 348: "Don Simms Has a Message for You" by Darren Morris "My father, yet alive but without purpose, loosens his mind like a botched windsor or the rope of a dinghy on a lake at night." stonecirclereview.com/don-simms/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 347: "Errand, with Jar and Fox" by Lee Fraser (@leefraser.bsky.social) "No one can see but there is a fox, low in my bag, and it says I have got to get the kite. It says the kite is the best and we can take it to ride gusts, tall and bold, up with the birds." stonecirclereview.com/errand

I'm launching a new feature today called "Three Poem About..." Every so often, I'm going to pull together three related poems from the archives and post them as a permanent collection. The first, Three Poems About Mothers, is now up: stonecirclereview.com/collections/... @moritherapy.bsky.social

POEM 346: "Fugato" by Kimberly Hall "Morning, & the bird outside my window is not a ghost. The light seems to break its bones, colors the horizon red through the throat – wings beating like a drum." stonecirclereview.com/fugato/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 345: "Moral" by Tom Snarsky (@tomsnarsky.bsky.social) "I’ve gotta stop putting god in these, he’s not interested in the watch once it’s shipped, only the putting -together of it, the assembly those lonely square faces before the three black lines start arcing..." stonecirclereview.com/moral

POEM 344: "technophobia/" by Beth Gordon (@bethgordonpoet.bsky.social) "This one looks like / my maternal grandmother: her mouth hinged: a squeezebox of monotone syllables & unlikely words: / a doppelganger of wrinkles." stonecirclereview.com/technophobia #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 343: "Inklings" by Angela Arnold (@angelaarnold777.bsky.social) "They may even have names, amongst themselves, the people peopling our dreams. Could have things to discuss, when our backs are turned into the legitimate light of day." stonecirclereview.com/inklings/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

POEM 342: "The Station Ghazal" by Annie Zaidi "Winter was like spring and spring ablaze like summer It rained all of last year outside the station He scratches his waist, she lays out blue towels The end is always near outside the station" stonecirclereview.com/the-station #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

POEM 341: "Adam and Eve after Eden" by Patricia Nelson "We rarely dream of Eden now. How the width of the angel slid over us, slow and horizontal, like a weight on a wire." stonecirclereview.com/adam-and-eve... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

📌Don't forget: The Circle is always open and searching for poems capable of making readers forget themselves. No fee. Fast turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

POEM 340: "Eye" by Leila Abeni Jackson "Seriously, though, something should be said About how easy it is, making the space between us Into no space. About how hard we work For that ease." stonecirclereview.com/eye/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

POEM 339: "They Depart" by Kyla Houbolt (@luaz.bsky.social) "Venus bows her gold-tressed head. You know, Diana, your hunting skills have surely improved. See our Jung down there now, an arrow through his brilliant heart, he's fallen from his loft indeed!" stonecirclereview.com/they-depart/ #Poem

POEM 338: "A Single Sign in Three Parts" by Ewen Glass (@ewenglass.bsky.social) "echoes feel hard won; we celebrate disappearing, ask what if something lives at the bottom?" stonecirclereview.com/a-single-sign/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity