VOICEMAIL POEMS
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- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
“at the end of the devil’s breath” by Romaine Washington
…july.
wilted cereal in a bowl / we
drown in brown boiling milk.
the haze of sparklers and fire-
works add to the deafening heat
that drips into
august.
caged in by smog,
air smells of cigarettes…
00:01:49 |
Mon 16 Apr 2018
“SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #2003” by Cortney Lamar Charleston
The eyes have it: weight, such that they can’t even roll.
This is one of those moments when I should probably listen
to my body but you know how it goes when someone talks
too much for your taste (c…
00:01:22 |
Mon 16 Apr 2018
"TINY NOWHERE" by jessie knoles
brilliant elixer
fuck me up
fuck me dead
why does
academia
hate me
i’m ready to
sacrifice
my body
to a career
something
boring like
teaching teenagers
why romeo and
juliet did or
didn’t die mak…
00:01:43 |
Mon 16 Apr 2018
"How To Push" by Laura E. Davis
I was on my back that morning
standing still & running
half-turned, fetal &
spread eagle
& curled up
along the edge
of the hospital bed
and the doctor says
“It’s time,”
& I already know because
it…
00:01:06 |
Mon 16 Apr 2018
*Winter 2018* - A Taunt, a Condo, and a Lifeline
Our hosts Logen Cure and I.S. Jones review their favs from our Winter 2018 issue!
(Get caught up on Winter 2018 here: soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/sets/voicemail-poems-fall-2017)
This installment …
00:20:16 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
"Blackberry Winter" by Robyn Campbell
Another storm has the neighbors' chickens
all lumped together and subdued, so
I can't hear them from my attic room.
Rain has thrown itself
for days against the roof.
"What is the cruelest month?" pe…
00:01:07 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Rayleigh Scattering" by E.G. Cunningham
End of the year gray. Anchors
Where balloons should be, or:
Could peace wait on the outer
Bank of sane. How in the holiday
Buzz to say nothing for clear, that is:
Give me back remembering,
Its atte…
00:00:43 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Alternate" by Mariel Fechik
i.
In the other world, everything smells like cherries.
Every phone call is the news of someone's death,
and every cigarette is candy. In the other world,
you tell me you do not love me every day, a…
00:01:24 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Rocket" by Allison Hummel
Part 1: Untitled
It was yesterday or something, when I heard
the song playing in a store, asking
do I make myself a blessing to everyone I meet?
I don't sing it to myself, exactly, but I do repea…
00:02:17 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"The Rising" by Cathleen Allyn Conway
The town knows about darkness, the slithered purple
that comes on the land when rotation hides the sun.
Something gathered, slow and heavy and electric, almost
as though the town knows evil is comi…
00:01:02 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"we're on a roller coaster, i'm nauseous but i don't wanna get off" by aleida m
we're crying in a costco parking lot
fiending for that intimacy we once felt
because every so often we lose it and
then i get depressed when i think you deserve much better
sometimes i think i dese…
00:02:09 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"ammonite sonnet" by Melissa Eleftherion
the ammonite an index of sutures
i got tired of cataloging them
hermetically sealing little traumas
afraid they'd get to know one another go boom
little mother catastrophes instead
i smashed little r…
00:01:15 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Marseille" by Emily S Cooper
He had created a type of 3d paint,
was one of the first things he told us.
As we followed him upstairs to his plant
filled apartment, we decided he was lying.
It wasn't long until he told us about…
00:01:49 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"say uncle" by Wimpy AF
"when you see a mountain coming,
get out of it's way."
my uncle, six-two and oxen
told me after clipping my wing.
i learn at an early age
to be a black man
is to see a black man
and fear his size, m…
00:00:51 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"HI, I'M OVULATING" by Elysia Lucinda Smith
My mother calls them phases and maybe
that's an accurate representation because
they're lunar, edges of something, the kind
of scrambling you do drunk in the dark.
It's a lot of being drunk in the da…
00:01:19 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Charms" by Joseph S. Pete
All soldiers believe Charms in their MREs are foul luck, bad juju,
more than just a dark talisman, a virtual death sentence.
Patrols have been called off if some dirtbag private
straight out of basic…
00:01:28 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"whelp" (after aziza barnes) by zach blackwood
my head is full of blood steamed like latte foam
pressing open the seams in my skull,
burning through folds in my brain like a shot luge.
my head is the generating station in the delaware river,
de…
00:02:24 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Taunts to the Klan" by Kirwyn Sutherland
Klu klux what?
I'm a such
A tool for America
Hands scraped raw
Hammered deep into cotton
Fly up and it rains gold
I'm a Midas
But was forced to turn
Inanimate objects into fortune
To fields of green…
00:02:37 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"Sonnet for Trans Lifeline & February 2017" by Sam Rush
sonnet for Trans Lifeline & February 2017
& for Kai
It snowed last week & the clouds slept lower.
I wonder where your body went without you,
who unraveled it & what came falling
from their mouths. …
00:01:43 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
"A SHINING EXAMPLE OF HOW AN HONEST, KIND, STRONG, AND RESPONSIBLE MAN LIVES HIS LIFE" by Dana Whtvr
I set down my flaming sword long enough to stare into
a hunting trip photo at my Grandfather's
memorial. It shows two men, and him between them in
a dress and wig-hilarious joke (everyone
laughed), …
00:01:51 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
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