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by Layla Lenhardt VOICEMAIL POEMS · "South Paw" by Layla Lenhardt It’s not because I reached upand tucked your hair behindyour ear in front of Michaelon Halloween, or the sexin my truck in the tattoo shopparking lot or that timeyou were yellowed by the sun. It’s the not knowing what to call youto my coworkers.Continue reading “South Paw”

by Jessy Edwards VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Socks" by Jessy Edwards Another thing better enjoyed together,I washed your two, long, black ribbed ones,my ankle-length ochre ones,and when I shook everything onto the bed to fold,mine had nestled inside yourslike kidney stones,all four still sopping wet,sodden stacking dollsclinging to one anotherin that hot and violent tumbledryer—notorious forContinue reading “Socks”

by Kathryn Kysar VOICEMAIL POEMS · "After You Leave" by Kathryn Kysar We keep each other out now.Grief winds the strings of my neck,my shoulders, rolling mad intothe sour valleys of fertilized fields,hacking the next cord of rotten wood. On my bridal day, I slept in the sheltersof pines, nimble on the floor of needles.SoundsContinue reading “After You Leave”

by Tessa Shea Whitehead VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Goldhood" by Tessa Shea Whitehead I still eat string cheeseand sit on the kitchen counter.Toe the acorns on our driveway from the oak,smell the rain-stained concrete andbright green, baby grass,regrown after the fires.The secrets I kept as a kid –climbing Coyote Hill at night,playing alone by the willowContinue reading “Goldhood”

by Sean Hanrahan VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Thinking of Reincarnation While Washing the Dishes" by Sean Hanrahan The romantic part of me wants to believein reincarnation, so I don’t hurt anyone, so I don’t make any mistakeson my way back to you. We can make sure we don’t hurt each otherover the decades. We can growContinue reading “Thinking of Reincarnation While Washing the Dishes”

by Amrita Chakraborty VOICEMAIL POEMS · "God Should Knock" by Amrita Chakraborty God should ___, if he wants me. God should be a nervous slip of a kid. God should pick up the altar and make flower petals float. God should draw a shaky self-portrait. God shouldnotbe indivisible. That was one word that always curledContinue reading “God Should Knock”

by Kay E. Bancroft VOICEMAIL POEMS · "I'm Sidney Fucking Prescott, Of Course I Have A Gun" by Kay E. Bancroft This sterling dagger is somehow magnetic; serving no purpose yetperpetually pulling toward her center of gravity. Sliveredsilver begging to nudge flesh but she refuses, hilt in hands of boysseeking answers in brunette women theyContinue reading “I’m Sidney Fucking Prescott, Of Course I Have a Gun”

by Nicole Steinberg VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Frenemy" by Nicole Steinberg I like to think an oversized floral printwill make me a better person but it wouldonly confuse and destroy the others. Ladybear, no one really gets to get the moon.Like all of us, the tides are faking it,drowning piles of embossed party invitationsin dismal dishwater.Continue reading “Frenemy”

by Jonathan Chan VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Miss You. Want to Ride the Subway with You" by Jonathan Chan after Gabrielle Calvocoressi get our hands featured on instagram. pointout public poems by the skyline. see the sunbreak through the lattices on the bridge. missyou. want to wait for the coffee to cool withyou. fold up theContinue reading “Miss You. Want to Ride the Subway with You.”

by Marisa Siegel VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Offer Me Nothing" by Marisa Siegel Offer me nothing& I greedily takenothing & makeit into everything What I mean is, giveme your empty handso I can show youhow to hold me What I mean is, takemy words & wrapthem around youlike a blanket What I mean is, don’tmisunderstand, don’tforgetContinue reading “Offer Me Nothing”