Special FeaturerbdWesley Civilz, poetry, special feature

Wesley Civilz: I Didn’t Mean to Kill You

Special FeaturerbdWesley Civilz, poetry, special feature
Wesley Civilz: I Didn’t Mean to Kill You
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THE BUG

 

Here comes the bug

 

He hovers out of the darkness

onto my computer’s screen

 

When I move my hand near him he startles

and plunges a return to the dark

 

(Or was he a she?)

 

*

 

I use my computer

 

I forget there was ever a bug

 

Here comes the bug again

 

He hovers out of

the darkness onto

my computer’s screen

 

*

 

When I move my hand near him, it hits him

 

(or her)

 

and it is now just a smear of wet dirt

in the middle of my screen, weird

 

Weird how 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 FeaturerbdAshley Mares, special feature, poetry

Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2. 

Special FeaturerbdAshley Mares, special feature, poetry
Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands
Special FeaturerbdGary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry

Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts

Gary Charles Wilkens’ first book, The Red Light Was My Mind, won the 2006 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize. His manuscript Fayetteville was a Finalist in the 2014 Moon City Review Poetry Contest. His poems have appeared more than 70 journals and anthologies, including The Texas Review, Moon City Review, Passages North, the Adirondack Review, James Dickey Review, Melancholy Hyperbole, and Midwest Quarterly. His fiction has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and Pale Ghosts Magazine. His day job is Associate Professor of English at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Special FeaturerbdGary Charles Wilkens, special feature, poetry
Gary Charles Wilkens: Edit the Sad Parts