Angelica Esquivel’s most recent job was a tile and luxury vinyl tile salesperson. Before that, Esquivel worked in marketing and communications at a private high school.

by Angelica Esquivel

I wonder if the spider feels
guilt because it must kill
to survive, or if the spider
has accepted their spider
way of life.

The Guilt That Breeds

Angelica Esquivel is a Xicana poet and multi-modal artist from Fostoria, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Barrelhouse, and Frontier Poetry. She received the 2021 Zocalo Poetry Prize and 2022 Roadrunner Review Cover Art Prize. She lives in Michigan, on occupied Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Wyandot land. She is a 2023 Writer of Ypsilanti.