Author Archives: voicemailpoems

by Dynas Johnson VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Night Tempo — A Triptych" by Dynas Johnson all these little fires bubbling in my throat.holographic. plasma straight through my veins.homeward highways into the burning center of itall: I miss every summer I only dreamed. too manycolors to give names to. I pull the yarn bundleby bundle. it pilesContinue reading “Night Tempo — A Triptych”

by Gerard Manogue VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Missed Call" by Gerard Manogue Wednesday morning before work, I missed a call from an area code I didn’t recognize. It was probably a scam or a telemarketer, there are a lot of those these days, but who knows? Maybe it was someone important: My boss? The FBI? TheContinue reading “Missed Call”

by Em Beckert VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Luxe Baby Weekend" by Em Beckert Morning comes like a Hall and Oates song.There’s a blackberry seed in my tooth-hole.I guess, at some point, my filling fell out. My phone says to me lover. My bodysays, about the whiskey, don’t do it again.We gathered under the strawberry moon. MyContinue reading “Luxe Baby Weekend”

by Allen Means VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Colorado" by Allen Means the first boy who doesn’t love me back laughs himself across the bridge and tells me to hold my breath. he holds my elbow as i step up onto his skateboard and i tell him i must look stupid for trying. the park benches areContinue reading “Colorado”

by Tina Zafreen Alam VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Cause I Need You Pt 4: The Roots" by Tina Zafreen Alam soundtrack: eve, the roots & is this turningback time never heardit resurrect dry wiltedfresh rain tender streamsunlight thaws coldcan you feel itwarm brush lips warmkiss every numb awayyou roughed eve out of wonderdulled splendourkeep saying dullContinue reading “‘Cause I Need You Pt. 4: The Roots”

by Adrian Dallas Frandle VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Calyx" by Adrian Dallas Frandle after “Housekeeping” by Marilynne Robinson O, make of my teeth. a sieve.drink. from this. font of mercy.make of my body. a community. lips nets. filter all impurity.every virus. every bruised siltedeye. sifted. through. every hurt. sold. let tears collected. saltcrust.make from them. crystalized.Continue reading “Calyx”

by Scout Faller VOICEMAIL POEMS · "At The End Of The World Is The World" by Scout Faller After Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You” Having fish and chips at lovely’sHaving a leather jacket you’re in a crinkly topHaving a past is not permissibleThat’s why tonight i’m 90s ethan hawkeHaving a diet coke explainingContinue reading “At the End of the World is the World”

by Murdo Homewood VOICEMAIL POEMS · "And How Does That Make You Feel?" by Murdo Homewood Murdo Homewood is an early church historian, poet, and worried transsexual, living and teaching Latin in Edinburgh. His work can be found in Prolit, Glitter, and little zines he makes for his friends. When not writing about long-dead saints, lastContinue reading “And How Does That Make You Feel?”

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by Sofia Fey VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Wings" by Sofia Fey There’s a runner and a chaser, you said, pointing at the page. Look. It was a book on twin flames, and all of the cycles they go through. Well, I don’t want to chase you anymore, I said, my strength stepping out from the cornerContinue reading “Wings”