Voicemail
by Morgan Bazilian

  1. Dada, did you get the message?
  1. He stutters a bit
  2. And then goes back to phrasing:
  3. I love you and I miss you.
  1. Milo is being nice to me now
  2. We are going on a school bus
  3. It’s my birthday soon
  4. I can’t wait to go to Florida.
  1. And then he is prompted by his mother.
  1. I can’t wait for guy’s weekend
  2. I got a new robot
  3. I got a book about dinosaurs
  4. I fed Alfie
  5. She is on the bed with us.
  1. I love you and I miss you
  2. Banana
Packingtown Review – Vol.9, Fall 2017

Morgan Bazilian’s poems and short fiction have appeared in journals including: Exercise Bowler, Pacific Poetry, Angle Poetry, Dead Flowers, Poetry Quarterly, Garbanzo Literary, Innisfree, Eclectica, South Loop Review, Embodied Effigies, Shadowbox, Slab, Crack the Spine, and Glasschord.

  1. Morgan Bazilian
    Liverpoetry