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Shadow of Doubt​

We change our lives
based on the faintest signal:
silence passing on
the street, lines drawn
between stars, distant city lights
seen from an attic window,
bones beneath our feet.

But I know I saw
you in the fragments
of the dish I dropped
this morning. Your cold
shadow came and covered me,
and this thing that passed
between us almost every day
became impossible.

 

 

Lee Potts is founder and editor-in-chief of Stone Circle Review. His work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Shore, The Night Heron Barks, Rust + Moth, UCity Review, Moist Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks. The most recent, We’ll Miss the Stars in the Morning was published in 2024 by Bottlecap Press. He lives just outside of Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.

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