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“Most of the Time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That’s what it means.”

-- June Jordan

Last Night of the Fair by Zachary Daniel   Last night of the fair. The livestock are packing their suitcases for a journey in the back of warm trailers. The Ferris wheel, groaning, lurches from its stanchions and rolls in...

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Last Night of the Fair" by Zachary Daniel (@zdaniel.bsky.social) #TBT

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"The dark tobacco sheaves bow
so low they fall
and are smoked."

Looking at the Photo, I Remember an Episode of America’s Next Top Model by Megan McDermott after Julia Margaret Cameron’s "2d. version study after the Elgin Marbles", 1867   where contestants had to pretend to be living statues, staying very still as pigeons landed on t...

Going through some poems to read for a talk, & while America's Next Top Model is still kind of in the Discourse, I feel like I should plug this ANTM (& Julia Margaret Cameron)-inspired poem I had come out a few months ago with @stonecirclereview.bsky.social

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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"

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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."

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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 "

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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."

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