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by Lu Chekowsky VOICEMAIL POEMS · "what my dead mother would have said about the pandemic" by Lu Chekowsky fuck ‘em those assholes with their stupid dicksin charge of us all glad to kill us for a buckthey don’t know shit about loveand they’re ugly tooso ugly that’s how they get so meantheir mothers neverContinue reading “what my dead mother would have said about the pandemic”

by Shannon Hearn VOICEMAIL POEMS · "WHAT MARRIAGE IS / TENDER CARE" by Shannon Hearn Shannon Hearn is currently a PhD candidate at Binghamton University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming with 3:AM Magazine, Big Lucks, cream city review, Juked, Fugue, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She received her MFA in poetry from QueensContinue reading “WHAT MARRIAGE IS / TENDER CARE”

by Ash Good VOICEMAIL POEMS · "what i appehend of time travel" by Ash Good Ash Good is a queer & non-binary poet, designer & activist. They are co-founding editor at First Matter Press (a 501c3 nonprofit), curator of Bloom open mic & a reader for Frontier Poetry magazine. Ash is the author of four collections of poetryContinue reading “what i apprehend of time travel”

by Jane Cope VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Pyrotechnique" by Jane Cope My job is to light a fire. The sunsof my dreams have told me my jobis to light a fire every night and I have taken it to heart.I keep the bass line thumping,I keep my tongue my wick tothe flame I’ve lit birthday candlesContinue reading “Pyrotechnique”

by Shea Foreman VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Naturalists Are the Nightwatch" by Shea Foreman Out to douse the pool lights.Already I feel the moonburn I’ll wake with. For moonburn,the dried heads of sunflowers.Rub. Waning, then waxing.Little siskins fall outand help to peck therelax deeper. Done right,next time you’ll be a bearof freshwater pearls. You lumber, youContinue reading “Naturalists Are the Nightwatch”

by Kate Levin VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Love Poem for Obliquity" by Kate Levin Let the phone ring—ignorethe dishes in the sink, the dustswept underneath the rug— because here are your legswrapped around my legs,here is the curtain of white light that fills your collarbones, washesyour face like a stone. Your bodyagainst my body on thisContinue reading “Love Poem for Obliquity”

by Donora Shaw VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Kalpa" by Donora Shaw after Skyrim; for Molly Brodak In the game he resurrects a creature, walrus-like, that comes galumphing after him in the way I feel I am kept, in the way I admired your precise grace like the end of a crystal snapped off in a wound.Continue reading “Kalpa”

by Pendambaye Z. Smith VOICEMAIL POEMS · "hold what the ship could not" by Pendambaye Z. Smith Pendambaye Z. Smith is a Black poet/scientist who is invested in the ways Black women sustain themselves in the midst of antiblackness. She has attended The Watering Hole Writing retreat and is a forthcoming Cave Canem and PinkContinue reading “hold what the ship could not”

by Sage Agee VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Don't Let Mom Write The Obituary" by Sage Agee Hey, soI think I might be dying.Or already dead.I’m not sure what the differenceis because my headis a ‘94 fleetwood hearse of detachment, drivingforward to an end dateon my to-do list,toward the ceremonyof the doing and the done and theContinue reading “Don’t Let Mom Write the Obituary”

by Tobi Kassim VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Confluent" by Tobi Kassim Every time we cross paths long membranes Weaken. Porous windows, vision merges After our eyelids rub. Darker sense but I recognized you still. After you shaved Your head your name was ashes. We scooped cinders of a flagging fire From the pit and spread blackContinue reading “Confluent”