Make me dim-witted. One of those days where I can’t bare it—the hum of madness. My belly wreaking havoc up and down my spine, intestines in a knot. Garlic! Disgusting! or maybe you called it gross & …

00:01:09 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"You Won't Ever Again be in Love in a Foreign Country" by Ky Pacheco

It's a bus stop in South America And crossing five lanes of traffic At ten in the morning. It's quiet, More than we were expecting. The taxi is late for arrival and I am thankful for every second. …

00:01:46 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"This is What You Are" by TC Tolbert

This is what you are missing Melissa – dust turned to waves in the desert – okra coming up two months too late – a forward-breaking gate opening into someone else’s field – I walk by a window and I…

00:02:56 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"This is Poetry Time" by Dan J. Kirk

There are few mornings like this – When the tumble day slows and the sweltering July heat subsides; when memories of last night’s fire show resonate with a still-first sense of wonder. The footfall …

00:01:33 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"The Kids Are So Back" by Morgan Tessier

barking up the right trees stuck on the double branch don’t climb if you can’t get down if you can’t get down better learn to jump the kids are so back vlog squad with baby teeth sucking ba…

00:01:45 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"The Coldening" by Kelly Gray

The leaving was such that each apple in the orchard glassed over into ghost-form on a single night. Centers rotted, dropped out, only translucent orbs at the end of wooded knots remained. A buck ar…

00:02:35 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"Street Plums" by Ashira Morris

I’m waiting for the tram, picking plums but really what I’m doing is looking, longingly higher up where most of the fruit is sitting ripe. A man approaches — bald but for a crown of white hair, l…

00:01:29 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"Smoke Elder" by Allegra Wilson

In front of the laundromat a cigarette grows out of stub and ash, smoke seeps from lungs back into sticky-dry tobacco, red hot cherry backs away from filter, reshapes as fire, jets back into …

00:01:32 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"Revenge Fantasy" by Stephanie Valente

Begins with texts to my best friend. Do you want to hear my revenge fantasy? Let’s get iced coffee and be brats. Learned helplessness is a crime. Success is an art. I’m working on my MFA. That’s deep…

00:00:59 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"POV - I sent you 317 reels on Instagram" by Kate Carey

I am not mentally okay. I thought of you, or more specifically, I thought this would be something you'd enjoy. This is some news you need to hear. Here is some free therapy that I heard. This made…

00:02:05 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"Poem" by Tom Snarsky

I felt like masturbating I felt like crying It was the twenty-first century Already A quarter over There had been artistic movements & wars My debts had been repackaged Countless times The e…

00:01:47 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"Naturalization Test" by Aishvarya Arora

Aishvarya Arora called us from Queens, NY. voicemailpoems.org/submit/ facebook.com/voicemailpoems twitter.com/voicemailpoems instagram.com/voicemailpoems

00:02:00 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

"Mojave" by Candace Cavanaugh

He gave up looking for a town, gas station, or house off a road or driveway The desert unfolded further than his eyes could see. In the stillness, the ground spread in glare, broken only by shrubs no…

00:03:00 | Tue 12 Nov 2024

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