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stone circle review skip to content x instagram bluesky email search for most recent poems three poems index of poems random poem about search for figment by daniel cartwright chaouki the clouds are not really white they are all different colours it s just the way we see them with our insensitive eyes the kingfisher is brown not blue the polar bear has colourless fur and a thick black hide the baby cries just to get our attention and wears the face of an older child yesterday we pretended to be real with our arms outstretched wide we flew through the air two pieces of shrapnel which land and begin to grow in the fire a leafless tree with fingers of ash wisps of smoke from the sun when we let it burn for too long yesterday is nothing now it is too far away your tongue is wrapped around the ruined words you can taste the plastic tang the newness in the air a bow headed whale gulfing before it swallows us both whole exactly where we stand daniel cartwright chaouki is a gardener and writer from birmingham england he writes about the scary world his work has featured both in print and online including the lincoln review steel jackdaw the vanity papers ink sweat and tears the lake sextet alocasia and mindfork the editor 2026 10 18t22 36 41 04 00 october 18 2026 city pastoral with crash scene by chrissy stegman yesterday i was unbuttoning the tulip poplars taking off their alien flowers i held them like courthouse cufflinks and dropped the blossoms of wet evidence in the late spring grass i had worn cheap mascara to the clean towel side of the theater district where taxi doors breathed open and shut like lungs i walked up the street where i had been the rain earlier juliet was already horizontal backstage pinned beneath silk and hot pink municipal flowers her beauty had the stunned look of love taxidermied romeo lifted a hand and the lights held it the way water holds the copper mouth of a garden spigot nobody whispered that tragedy was gainful employment i was tired of theater but i still caught the clock at 1 11 rushed to my train my arms raised in the afternoon air outside a maple tree performed its pollinating crash scene to the sidewalk i shot my eyes to a vulture working the air with a red tongue thread tied to the throat of the sky later on the commuter road i slammed my head into the memory of the tulip poplar flowers their odd orange and green which struck the windshield of me like rumors of some distant powdered mountain chrissy stegman lives in baltimore maryland her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in the iowa review mer michigan quarterly review one art rattle river heron review and gargoyle among others she is a 2025 mvicw fellow and winner of the 2025 ellen conroy kennedy poetry prize she has received three pushcart prize and best of the net nominations the editor 2026 10 17t10 39 25 04 00 october 17 2026 twa corbies by kyla houbolt two crows diverged whose flights were tracked in a yellow wood by crow the third who watched the horse that lay quite still the first two crows brought back their brothers but that third crow had got the eyes first one then two from the head of the horse that lay so still i ll sing you how the gang of crows descend on the horse in ones and twos and make such a noise they scare off the flies who d come to feast on the horse so still and i recall as the leaves fall down on this road in the wood under branches bare it s one for sorrow two for mirth then nine for hell as i rode the earth on a horse whose bones lay still kyla houbolt is a poet and gardener living in north carolina usa her forthcoming collections little survivors everywhere phafours press and dance on wordrunner press will be available fall 2026 details about these and other collections most still available can be found on her website kylahoubolt us she is on bluesky luaz bsky social the editor 2026 10 11t13 23 21 04 00 october 11 2026 give me a crow by robin turner perturbed gleaming pitch black in the night of day the hush of a great cloudbank lush darkly looming give me the freighted air how it calls calls from the almost silence some melody gathering brimming a song i don t yet know the words for o give me the just before an about to be rain a little psalm to hold pocket small pine of beautiful ruin to come and then long after the deluge is done give me memory give me ache the exuberance of rust its rough blooming robin turner makes poems and poem like things in dallas texas she is the author of bindweed crow poison porkbelly press and elegy with clouds kelsay books a longtime community teaching artist she currently works with writers from the cancer support community of north texas the editor 2026 10 10t10 44 42 04 00 october 10 2026 black tea by cindy kurukaanga her morning ritual is to nestle into her tumbledown chair with a steaming cup of tea through the bay window a mother watches her kinder garden she traces branches across the back of hands that dug abundance into broody marl charged earth with buddings nursed slips to full plumage she reaches for her cup secateurs clip brittle breath sharpen with each stroke on her spine the faithful workhorse that took the strain of tilling over the barren tending fruit from the sterile carrying child size bundles she steeps in fecund bliss until her light is drawn raising its hands to heaven the grass surrenders to grief the trees lament softly weep their leaves mascara runs smudges window panes the sparrows transpose their song to a minor key adorned in a mourning dress the tea is verdant in funereal black cindy kurukaanga ngāti rangi te āti haunui a pāpārangi ngāti tūwharetoa discovered a love for creative writing later in life she lives in the north of aotearoa new zealand she has work published with broken spine arts in takahē magazine and was thrilled to get a special mention in given words 2025 she recommends angela janda s reading joan didion in the condo in red river from the stone circle review archive you can find her on bluesky kakapowhakatoi bsky social the editor 2026 10 04t11 36 37 04 00 october 4 2026 load more posts 1 next all non poetry content copyright 2023 2026 stone circle review all rights reserved all rights to individual poems reverted to author upon publication x instagram bluesky email page load link go to top