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by Sophia Rosenberg VOICEMAIL POEMS · "How to be a Good Ancestor" by Sophia Rosenberg be stilllistenslip through the needle eye of silence. leave behind your preference for black licorice, your talent for word gamesyour grandfather’s watch….your hair, your skin, your teeth enter naked as bones ask the furred, the feathered, the finnedhow to fordContinue reading “How to be a Good Ancestor”

by Laura Casteel VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Herons" by Laura Casteel We stalk the banksof swamps and slow riversin silence, our voices too fullof clam shells for hunting.We blossom in violencespring-loaded headsstriking the mudfor insects, salamanders, frogsour feathers arsenalsof indigo knives,necks adornedwith fishbone needles.Yet we fly so tenderlyblooming from rocksslow wingbeatsfolding the airtoward soft chests.For some,Continue reading “Herons”

by Emma Sheinbaum VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Grief Flow" by Emma Sheinbaum Emma Sheinbaum writes essays, poems, and multimedia/hybrid forms. She also teaches writing workshops at places such as Brooklyn Poets and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Emma’s work has been published by TILT, Cobra Milk, Barrelhouse Magazine, TriQuarterly, Milk Press, Metatron Press, Juked, and The InQueery, among others.Continue reading “Grief Flow”

by Mary Geschwindt VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Deathbed Meditation" by Mary Geschwindt In corpse pose I practice feeling the satin lining of my coffin,imagine the gently ruffled rim meeting my stiff skirt. Next month, I’m attending a wedding in a cemetery,and I can’t decide what people don’t like about that. Who wouldn’t want to haunt theirContinue reading “Deathbed Meditation”

by Nicholas Bonarski VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Dandelions" by Nicholas Bonarski For years the school bus took the same pathpast your grandmother’s house—just uphill from yours each day the fields flickering past,sometimes filled with corn,autumn filled with hay bales that long swinging arm of the sprinklertempting in the summer heat, always runningas we’d drive back toContinue reading “Dandelions”

by Eléna Rivera VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Consider the Climate" by Eléna Rivera I’ve had enough of new names, new ways of trying to stop time,it just creates more sleet in the steep curves of my pale existence,of ways to prod and avoid the emotions that rock the course ofmy continuance, which is entirely filled withContinue reading “Consider the Climate”

by L. Amariti VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Coming Out to my Dead Grandfather as Having Ken Doll Hubris (Ken, Limitless)" by L. Amariti L. Amariti (they/them) is an aroace, nonbinary writer from New Jersey who holds an MFA in creative writing and MA in English from Arcadia University. Their poetry has been featured in Silly GooseContinue reading “Coming Out to My Dead Grandfather as Having Ken Doll Hubris (Ken, Limitless)”

by Angel Monet LoMax VOICEMAIL POEMS · "AND I WON'T [X ]YOUR BROTHER…BUT YOU CAN [X] MY–" by Angel Monet LoMax Angel Monet LoMax is, above most else, an idea. Now they’re in your head.

by Gabriela González VOICEMAIL POEMS · "A Childhood Bedroom Is a Whole World" by Gabriela González after Cheryl Boyce-Taylor there was always someoneday-dreaminghurtling towards the other worldfalling for somebody’s songrass-stained kneesweavingin and out of lovecondemning their mother tonguetwisting traditionout of ghost talecrossing an oceanon a paper-mache boatpainting their nails blackdressed in robin’s egg bluebright redContinue reading “A Childhood Bedroom is a Whole World”

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