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Gabriel Orion gigi bella Sadie Dupuis Hiwot Adilow DeShara Suggs-Joe Jennifer Greenberg Miona Short Tianna Bratcher m mick powell Annette Covrigaru Karlo Sevilla Jasper Hardin Brendan Allen Orchid Tierney Natalie Sakarintr

by Natalie Sakarintr VOICEMAIL POEMS · “The oval end of it” by Natalie Sakarintr Each summer, I shed my skin like a cicadaand eat custard apples with both hands,holding them toward the sun. In December I wake up dreaming of the flood.I have wrung it out again, one year in every ten.The crack in theContinue reading “The oval end of it”

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by Brendan Allen VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Terra Rima (After Jack Collom)” by Brendan Allen love is born of thing-ness &         I choose to love the bedded dirt, the edible earth beneath the stove-         range. I love the sprouted-new tufts of mold as they muddy the grout. I love         the ant-ball’s tributaries, flirting the lost taffy.Continue reading “Terra Rima (After Jack Collom)”

by Jasper Hardin VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Ode to Autistic Love” by Jasper Hardin After Everything Is Gonna Be Ok and Josh Thomas If a bouquet folded out of classical sheet music is a sign of love then so is the handmade accordion of envelopes M gave me in eighth grade. Each with a letter ofContinue reading “Ode to Autistic Love”

by Karlo Sevilla VOICEMAIL POEMS · “My Minor Exigencies” by Karlo Sevilla An itch neurotic on my napenags for what it needs. Nailsuncut, my fingers oblige, pawnsof the mind that yields. In the coldshower, the strong soap stingsthe claw marks down my skin.But it’s superficial. I’ll be finein an hour or two. Won’t deny mesleep.Continue reading “My Minor Exigencies”

by Annette Covrigaru VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Boy of Summer” by Annette Covrigaru i. A cool gym closet, our refuge, cardboardboxes, plastic floor hockey sticks and basketballslike discarded adolescence, we balance on rollerskates too wide and slim, trace and retrace anoval track that doesn’t exist, cut corners, holdour breaths. We are bound in our bodies –oversizedContinue reading “Boy of Summer”

by m mick powell VOICEMAIL POEMS · “when will you start to miss me” by m mick powell it’s true i restrained myself from getting on my kneesand lapping the spilt wine from the floor after you left. a pathetic cross to bear: my body bearing the burdenof proof; my desire being asked for aContinue reading “when will you start to miss me”

by Tianna Bratcher VOICEMAIL POEMS · “The Title Of This Poem Is Drake Ass Niggas Unless You Are Not Black…” by Tianna Bratcher To all the men who ask me for my real name and not my stripper name, what is knowing my real name going to change for you?  whether it’s Tianna, Alex, Diamond,Continue reading “The Title of This Poem is Drake Ass Niggas Unless You Are Not Black, Then It’s Run Me My Money”

by Miona Short VOICEMAIL POEMS ·