Lee Potts is founder and editor-in-chief of Stone Circle Review. His work has appeared in The Night Heron Barks, Rust + Moth, The Shore, 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.
No one thinks to listen
between a hive’s
close wax walls for
the hymns god loves best.
Vast acoustics of stone,
and stained glass have nothing
to offer this communion
of sweet, dancing air.