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Lee Potts
To this earth
The house you grew up in
was tangled in wilderness.
The plot of ground
where you laid out
tidy rows in your final garden
didn’t hold you to this earth.
It’s the first week of autumn,
the wind shifts at dusk.
The sky is low and made
of rain that hasn’t yet
decided where to fall.
Lee Potts is founder and editor-in-chief of Stone Circle Review. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his work has appeared in The Night Heron Barks, Rust + Moth, Whale Road Review, UCity Review, Firmament, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks – And Drought Will Follow (Frosted Fire Press, 2021) and We’ll Miss the Stars in the Morning (Bottlecap Press, 2024). He lives just outside of Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.
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