Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJuly 14, 2017Wes Civilz, special feature, poetry

Wes Civilz: Can We Blame Her

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteJuly 14, 2017Wes Civilz, special feature, poetry

CELLULAR

Spiderman isn’t supposed to be green,

or yellow, or pink, or purple, but

a pick-up truck full of wrong-colored Spidermen

is definitely barreling down an icy mountain road

in this café, on the screen of that little girl’s cell phone,

as I eat my fried jalapeño

Can we blame her for her zombie entanglement

with a sleek box that offers only everything,

a tiny rainbowing eidolon of everything

that she ever wanted

that she never knew she wanted

that she shall learn to require

Wes Civilz lives next to a dusty cactus in Tucson, Arizona. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, [PANK], Entropy, and The Green Mountains Review. Please say hello at wescivilz.com.

Joanna Valente

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Gabrielle Brant Freeman: Every Boy She’s Ever Fucked Without a Condom

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Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 22, 2017Gabrielle Brant Freeman, special feature, poetry

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Catherine Esposito Prescott: To Forgive Us Everything

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Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 26, 2017Catherine Esposito Prescott, special feature, poetry

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Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAugust 21, 2017Ashley Mares, special feature, poetry

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Wesley Civilz: I Didn’t Mean to Kill You

Wesley Civilz lives in Vermont. His writing has appeared in journals such as The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, PANK, and Green Mountains Review. His website is wescivilz.com.

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteMay 14, 2018Wesley Civilz, poetry, special feature