Category Archives: 10th Anniversary

  1. Abroad

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    September 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by N. West Moss   When I was fifteen, I spent the summer in the Loire Valley as an au …
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  2. Flesh Charm for Waifs and Strays gleditsia triacanthos

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    September 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Laura Madeline Wiseman   Dear thorns in a chain linked yard, sometimes sweetness fails to fruit. Dear nearly hairless. …
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  3. Lee in the Orchard, 1865

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Roy Bentley   This was after Lincoln had walked in Richmond. It was the first week of April. There …
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  4. A Flesh Like Ours  

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    September 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer Popa   This is for my sisters who were slick with mud, poking the dead baby chick with …
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  5. Cheap

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    March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review

    by P.J. Sambeaux   My mother would only go to the  laundromat in the shittiest part of town, across the …
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  6. Remaining

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    September 6, 2013 by The Citron Review

    by Alan Stewart Carl   After bringing Jane, my mother-in-law, home from the VFW, she led me into what she …
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  7. Pretty in the Right Light

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by A.D. Carswell   Mine is the face of a villain, a gross misshaping of a normal visage. I like …
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  8. The Water Is Wide

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Matthew Brennan   The fine, misted rain drifted sideways in long columns as it fell, glittering down onto the …
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  9. The Man Remembers the Only Cummerbund He Has Ever Worn

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Rafferty   My date had a wrist corsage — another first and last time confused with brandy. Her …
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  10. Wish You Were Somewhere

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Steven Ostrowski    She’s dead but you can drive. You can still do that. Let the rain drive down …
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IMAGE: Painted scroll: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu)
IMAGE: Winter Journey Through the Mountains Along Plank Roads (Ming Huang's Journey to Shu) (Yokoi Kinkoku 横井金谷) , 1985.791,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2025