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“it’s where most of us find ourselves
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”
- @c-late.bsky.social
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after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”
- @c-late.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“it’s where most of us find ourselves
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”
- @c-late.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/p...
after a relationship
sharing space with those silver skins
not fitting any better than the aluminum did
her and her meal prep
her and her insistence others should hide
what she plans to devour”
- @c-late.bsky.social
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“As a recluse / I really went / all out"
- @jennacardinale.bsky.social
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- @jennacardinale.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“As a recluse / I really went / all out"
- @jennacardinale.bsky.social
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- @jennacardinale.bsky.social
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“When I called desire by name, the fog lifted from our past.”
- Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro
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- Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro
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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“When I called desire by name, the fog lifted from our past.”
- Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro
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- Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro
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“I wanted heaven
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
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But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
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November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“I wanted heaven
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...
But space spat me out.
I heard earth girls are easy.
I’m so easy I only learned how to fight
Back last week. I didn’t win.
But I cured my depression
By making the bed!”
- Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"
- Lauren Mills
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- Lauren Mills
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November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Why, even when / I am so quiet, and so good, can I not catch a fish? Why did you die, when / you knew every psalm by heart and every benefit of witch hazel? / Do you ever feel like July has forgotten your name?"
- Lauren Mills
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- Lauren Mills
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“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.”
- Alexa Vallejo
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- Alexa Vallejo
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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“Solidarity is pissing / in adjacent stalls. / A godly marriage / is a throuple with / Christ.”
- Alexa Vallejo
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- Alexa Vallejo
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“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”
- Juniper Danger
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- Juniper Danger
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November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“My thoughts have value even if no one reflects on them. / These mountains scrape the sky even after the sun dips behind them, / the gardens keep growing in darkness even after the dykes who dressed up for the art have / wandered out.”
- Juniper Danger
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- Juniper Danger
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“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light”
- John Muro
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- John Muro
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November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“I’m wondering how best to preserve / this day when I find myself summoned / outside into the warming light”
- John Muro
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- John Muro
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“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal”
- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“the loss we talk about / it doesn’t heal”
- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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- Chiara Crisafulli, “4-tongue poem”
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🍁 fall issue's up! 🍁
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ft. @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @jennacardinale.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, @c-late.bsky.social, & more!
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“But dawn,
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“But dawn,
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
Because you hid behind the horizon
torches blazed, blinding,
breaking sleep and families
as parents were taken from screaming kids
to be jailed then charged then sent back to the islands
Dawn,
because you were silent,
because all murmurings were silenced.”
- @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social
“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life.
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
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We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
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September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“My neighbor listens patiently, amused by my young life.
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
We’re the only Black gay men in our building,
so he has me over for Sunday tea. I fill our cups.
For the heart, he says, adding whiskey to his.”
- Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/s...
“sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life / so you do the next best thing / and you cut your hair”
- Sarena Brown
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- Sarena Brown
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September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life / so you do the next best thing / and you cut your hair”
- Sarena Brown
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- Sarena Brown
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September 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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“There was happiness in 1930s Germany and at the end of Rome, too."
- Jill McLaughlin
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- Jill McLaughlin
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August 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“There was happiness in 1930s Germany and at the end of Rome, too."
- Jill McLaughlin
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- Jill McLaughlin
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“we talked about the final moment
and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
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and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
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August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“we talked about the final moment
and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/m...
and how I might not make it
(I did, he waited)
we talked about how a summer would never
be enough time, as the days stretched out
my son, his namesake, waited in the cherry tree”
- Annie Powell Stone
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/m...
"Let's say,
This is for me.
This is because I want.
This is because I exist.
This is because I take up space,
as much as I want, & more,
& I survive despite your best efforts
to tamp me down,
& I will fucking wear my defiance
like a punch to the gut"
- Maia Brown-Jackson (@andyetpoetry.bsky.social)
This is for me.
This is because I want.
This is because I exist.
This is because I take up space,
as much as I want, & more,
& I survive despite your best efforts
to tamp me down,
& I will fucking wear my defiance
like a punch to the gut"
- Maia Brown-Jackson (@andyetpoetry.bsky.social)
August 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Let's say,
This is for me.
This is because I want.
This is because I exist.
This is because I take up space,
as much as I want, & more,
& I survive despite your best efforts
to tamp me down,
& I will fucking wear my defiance
like a punch to the gut"
- Maia Brown-Jackson (@andyetpoetry.bsky.social)
This is for me.
This is because I want.
This is because I exist.
This is because I take up space,
as much as I want, & more,
& I survive despite your best efforts
to tamp me down,
& I will fucking wear my defiance
like a punch to the gut"
- Maia Brown-Jackson (@andyetpoetry.bsky.social)
“On Fridays, management makes movie popcorn
to celebrate the end of the week.
Why are we always so hungry?
The smell of fake butter is rich.
We follow it. We eat.”
- Jaime Jacques
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to celebrate the end of the week.
Why are we always so hungry?
The smell of fake butter is rich.
We follow it. We eat.”
- Jaime Jacques
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August 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“On Fridays, management makes movie popcorn
to celebrate the end of the week.
Why are we always so hungry?
The smell of fake butter is rich.
We follow it. We eat.”
- Jaime Jacques
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/k...
to celebrate the end of the week.
Why are we always so hungry?
The smell of fake butter is rich.
We follow it. We eat.”
- Jaime Jacques
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/k...
“the olive jar says you should take only nine, yet seventeen have passed through your teeth. it is okay. it will all, one day, be okay.”
- Annabelle Chen
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- Annabelle Chen
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August 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“the olive jar says you should take only nine, yet seventeen have passed through your teeth. it is okay. it will all, one day, be okay.”
- Annabelle Chen
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- Annabelle Chen
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“Lake Berryessa, azure at our backs / the man from / Toluca slips me / lozenges from under his tongue / Spanish alive / in my mouth”
- Tatiana Chaterji
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- Tatiana Chaterji
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August 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Lake Berryessa, azure at our backs / the man from / Toluca slips me / lozenges from under his tongue / Spanish alive / in my mouth”
- Tatiana Chaterji
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- Tatiana Chaterji
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"b/c one day i will want for nothing
b/c one day i will not want"
- Diandra Williams
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b/c one day i will not want"
- Diandra Williams
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August 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"b/c one day i will want for nothing
b/c one day i will not want"
- Diandra Williams
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b/c one day i will not want"
- Diandra Williams
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"What song do you serve your ears
the morning after your mom sends you home
with a peace flower
and you say goodbye in the dark
because it hurts to see?"
- @marissadesantis.bsky.social
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the morning after your mom sends you home
with a peace flower
and you say goodbye in the dark
because it hurts to see?"
- @marissadesantis.bsky.social
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August 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"What song do you serve your ears
the morning after your mom sends you home
with a peace flower
and you say goodbye in the dark
because it hurts to see?"
- @marissadesantis.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/b...
the morning after your mom sends you home
with a peace flower
and you say goodbye in the dark
because it hurts to see?"
- @marissadesantis.bsky.social
voicemailpoems.org/2025/08/14/b...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"First rule of depression:
We don’t talk about depression."
- David J. Schast
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We don’t talk about depression."
- David J. Schast
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June 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"First rule of depression:
We don’t talk about depression."
- David J. Schast
voicemailpoems.org/2025/05/13/w...
We don’t talk about depression."
- David J. Schast
voicemailpoems.org/2025/05/13/w...