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Roadside Crucifixes

by Brian Duran-Fuentes VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Roadside Crucifixes" by Brian Duran-Fuentes Roadside crucifixes,Bleaching incandescent,Glowing, all September long.True, the dead rise early,But they have nowhere elseTo roam around these days.Hell is too gentrified,Heaven is a share timeAdvertised in doujinEzekiel never wrote.Seven steps, eight maybe,Is all they can affordTo lease around their grave.Amber marigold vendors,Hyped-up, cheapened folklore.TheirContinue reading “Roadside Crucifixes”

In Which You Are the World’s Oyster

by Nat Raum VOICEMAIL POEMS · "In Which You Are the World's Oyster" by Nat Raum my calling was to be shucked, shelldiscarded like a skinny dipper, porous shieldpried apart for meat, never pearls— never was there freshwater pure enoughfor grit to taste like sugar, for precious stonesto fall like teeth in the same kindContinue reading “In Which You Are the World’s Oyster”

Love Poem at the End of a World

by Charlie Glick VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Love Poem at the End of a World" by Charlie Glick for Evelyn We came back to the citywith the desert on our skin, dustedwith the light that curvesacross the granite back of the Mojave,the kind of light you can smell.That night I dreamed I stoodbeneath the grandmother tree,theContinue reading “Love Poem at the End of a World”

Track: “More Than a Woman,” Aaliyah

by Arianne Elena Payne VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Track: ‘More Than A Woman’, Aaliyah” by Arianne Elena Payne like the meat of a mango,i offer a proposition. i’ll give you the sweetest parts: waist of my neck,bridge of my laughter, coat of my inner thigh, shield of my intimacy.like the meat of a mango, i stickContinue reading “Track: “More Than a Woman,” Aaliyah”

Tiny Bones

by Christie Valentin-Bati VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Tiny Bones" by Christie Valentin-Bati Christie Valentin-Bati is (unofficially) a suburban kid from Florida now mostly grown up. Officially, she is a multi-genre writer and photographer interested in the everyday/mundane. Her work has received honorable mention in the 2022 and 2021 Academy of American Poet’s Poetry Contest, has beenContinue reading “Tiny Bones”

O(r)bit

by Daisy Clar Rosenstock VOICEMAIL POEMS · "O(r)bit" by Daisy Clar Rosenstock The next evening, I wake,still in mourning under thatafternoon’s thumb. “We arestrange creatures,” you said,“like Robert Grenier’s CICADA.”A whine in the late summer,blue and bright. A hollow skincrushed underfoot, here yetvery much there. Spring springsunderneath the down comforter—the hyacinths trying to growout ofContinue reading “O(r)bit”

Inceptus

by Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Inceptus" by Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras is of Zapoteco descent from Oaxaca, Mexico. She’s an aspiring poeta who is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio at Fresno State. You can find her on IG @ ceci_herm