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Let’s say its the swallows
1June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Rena Willis Let’s say they’ve returned again. Dipping, twirling, darkening the sky in a chorus of wings that cuts …
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Death by Fours
1June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Kath Wu Four is pronounced like death. From fourth to eighth grade is the death of an elementary school …
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Workshop
1June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Lesley Warren It wasn’t much good, the thing that was you. No wonder you’re screwed up now. No wonder …
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Drought Season
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by Elisa Luna Ady In Southern California, we did lines of light. We wallowed sunlit in our hopscotch puddles, paddling …
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On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird
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by Kate Horsley Your husband says he’s sleeping on the couch again, and that’s when it happens. You wake to …
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Out Loud
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by Sarah Kartalia When the album came out, our parents fed us bagels with cream cheese and that LP for …
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Those Spaces
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by Morgan Brie Johnson To the cab driver, they look like his daughter’s old matryoshka dolls, squished into the backseat, …
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Roly-poly
1June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Sarah Seidel Between the small stones of the patio I find you curled, drawing your armor around you. A …
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The Momfluencer Was an Economics Major, So She Knows the Power of Want
Leave a commentJune 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Elizabeth Torres Elizabeth Torres is a poet and essayist in southern Minnesota with work in AGNI, Ecotone, Pleiades, and …
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Longview
1June 29, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Aaron Sandberg The summer you would not stop spinning the Dookie CD, the rest of us tried to escape. …
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