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by Carmen Barefield VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Do You Know?" by Carmen Barefield The human brain generates 20 watts of electricity.Or so the AI Overview tells me unpromptedwhen I search how much a thought costs me,how much energy each flex of my fingersare required to press each of these keys. Do you know how much energyisContinue reading “Do You Know?”

by Mikey Franz VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Christmas Day at a Dive Bar" by Mikey Franz Christmas Day at a dive bar& God has blessed us allwith holy days & spirits poured overthis small glimpse at eternity blurring bright againstthe near-silent nightnaive nativities of promised tomorrowsfester & foster today’s futilities yet here we arrivefrom memories ofeverywhereContinue reading “Christmas Day at a Dive Bar”

by Joshua Lillie VOICEMAIL POEMS · "At the Holiday Party" by Joshua Lillie my wife’s coworkers ask about my poetryand I tell them oh,it’s slice-of-life kind of stuff.Bird on a wire kind of stuff. They askbut what are they about? and I tell them so, they say that the only philosophical questionworth asking is whetherContinue reading “At the Holiday Party”

by Rose DeMaris VOICEMAIL POEMS · "A Tooth of Mary Magdalene" by Rose DeMaris suspended in rock crystal. So much we didn’t see, the last time. Some say she crossed the ocean to France in 33 AD and mourned him. Even there, he found and called to her disguised as a winged creature. Cupid’s bowlContinue reading “A Tooth of Mary Magdalene”

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by Callie Jennings VOICEMAIL POEMS · "When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain…" by Callie Jennings Until I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the run from drowning. Actually no one understandstheir reasons. Maybe worms emerge from dirt to tarwhen vibrations ape a predator.Continue reading “When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm Sex”

by Muhammad Rabih VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Untitled" by Muhammad Rabih we did not hold handsoften we clenched legsunder the table hands were too publicfor two who did not knowhow feelings socailize we sat on a benchon the cornichewatching the nile at noon it was full and calmwe could hear the wind singto the trees onContinue reading “Untitled”

by Fiona Martinez VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Unassigned" by Fiona Martinez Fiona Martinez is a queer poet from Boise, Idaho and an MFA writing student at UC San Diego. Her hybrid work enters the natural world and the animal to understand embodiment, mixed identities, and the entanglement of violence and tenderness in our shared work towardsContinue reading “Unassigned”

by JeFF Stumpo VOICEMAIL POEMS · "[Tonight you lay on your own couch…]" by JeFF Stumpo JeFF Stumpo’s prose poems describing his lucid dreams, as well as rendering the hopes and fears of people he cares about into dreamscapes, have appeared or are forthcoming in places such as The Journal, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill Journal,Continue reading “[Tonight you lay on your own couch…]”

by Charlotte Alexander VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Way to Keep Going in Your Twenties" by Charlotte Alexander Charlotte Alexander is an aspiring poet from Vermont. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Idaho. She is often found fly fishing small streams, hugging her favorite trees, and writing poems in her email drafts.