Author Archives: voicemailpoems

Gabriela González Angel Monet LoMax L. Amariti Eléna Rivera Nicholas Bonarski Mary Geschwindt Emma Sheinbaum Laura Casteel Sophia Rosenberg Vasiliki Argyris Marissa M. Zhu Uchechukwu Onyedikam Chloe Yelena Miller Lena Hadley Birch Wiley Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović Shannon Frost Greenstein Ella B. Winters

by Ella B. Winters VOICEMAIL POEMS · "What I Mean When I Offer to Hem your Trousers" by Ella B. Winters Saying I love you in my mother tongueis impossible. My mother never loved mein words. She gave up a continentfor me, its contents tradedfor a feathered hope of better. For me, she went toContinue reading “What I Mean When I Offer to Hem your Trousers”

by Shannon Frost Greenstein VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Tintinnabulation for the Godless on a Winter's Night" by Shannon Frost Greenstein The bellslike a leviathanbreach the membrane of the liquid dark,tumbling forth like a vanguardincited by adrenaline and the call of drumbeats. The God Paradox States:1. If God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, He has the power andContinue reading “Tintinnabulation for the Godless on a Winter’s Night”

by Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić) VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Ray" by Aleksandra Jovičić Đinović (translated from Serbian by Kruna Petrić) the vines awakento greet the ripening daythe sun climbs to its zenithscattering darkness from every corneryou fold your sorrowing handsacross your bellyonly yesterdaythere was a heartbeatyour weary body tightensunder the blazeContinue reading “Ray”

by Birch Wiley VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Platform" by Birch Wiley Birch Wiley is a transsexual writer living in New York. Their work can be found in Pleiades, Oscillations, and Querencia Quarterly, among others. Their debut collection, Mythweaver, was published by new words {press}. You can learn more about them at birchwiley.com. This poem previously appeared in Anarchist-Socialist Party of Poets.

by Lena Hadley VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Ode to a Lover of Jazz Music" by Lena Hadley I heard the first note on a train out of townA certain je ne sais quoi was ignitedWith the flair of a madman, sprung out of my chairSlammed emergency stop and alighted Waltzed up and down the boarded upContinue reading “Ode to a Lover of Jazz Music”

by Chloe Yelena Miller VOICEMAIL POEMS · "MRI 2" by Chloe Yelena Miller This time I’m breast. Face down, breasts hangingas still as I could be. I brought my breasts, body, here,it feels like. I am notexactlymy body today. I remember choosingdying in my sleepduring the childhood game,as if we could predict or choosethat kindContinue reading “MRI 2”

by Uchechukwu Onyedikam VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Loud Dream" by Uchechukwu Onyedikam Dear moon child of the Universewake up and lift your golden feet& wave your hand’s glory to yourplacid dispositionhowever humble it may bewithout surrendering yourhuman dignity For you have the worthy rightto be present here void ofdark imaginings of who’sover your halo & beneaththeContinue reading “Loud Dream”

by Marissa M. Zhu VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Its 2:24 AM and I Missed Last Call so Just Wanted to Say Hey" by Marissa M. Zhu Do you remember that summerI spent trying to catch your snort in a jar?That snort you’d bury under a cough every time. A boy breaking through the drywall of aContinue reading “It’s 2:24 am and I Missed Last Call, so Just Wanted to Say Hey”

by Vasiliki Argyris VOICEMAIL POEMS · "How to Make Way for Something Bigger than a Tree" by Vasiliki Argyris Do birds fear heights, the waywe fear living?Pigeons above all, alwaysso low to the ground,and squirrels, not avian but aerial,crossed wireswith cheeks full ofpreparedness,We risk so much to preparefor so little,The mourning dove is watchingfrom aContinue reading “How to Make Way for Something Bigger than a Tree”