Category Archives: 2021

  1. We Had A Blue Wedding

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Janet Jiahui Wu   You have said it. To sleep without love. Same mistake repeatedly. Into the pond icing …
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  2. Found Objects

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Lorette C. Luzajic   We were on the outskirts of Libson. We walked and walked and walked, when we …
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  3. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    As I write this letter, it is humid in North Carolina, even in Asheville. In other parts of the state …
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  4. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mother

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Kerry Herlihy   4.Her father has vanished again, maybe onto a tugboat on Lake Erie or into a bottle …
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  5. La Zenia

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Ross Thompson   Late evening, and swimmers are bathing in sepia waves, braving the breakers of Mediterranean water, warm …
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  6. Ashes with Hindsight

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    After Ashes, Steve McQueen, Tate Modern, London, UK by Emma Lee   Looking out to the sunny, calm horizon, one …
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  7. (Antenna) (Whiskey) Template

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Beth Gordon   Unravel the seaweed around your ankles:  ankles laced with brine. Gather the wind as bright as …
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  8. Notes on the Micros

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    June 20, 2021 by The Citron Review

    Where do inspiration and organization meet? Are they at war? Or is it more of a cooperative struggle resulting in …
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  9. Notes on the Fiction Selections

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    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    The legend goes that one day when he was sixteen, my dad bent down to tie his shoes and could …
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  10. Sequestered

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    March 21, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Linda Wastila   Red velvet shrouds the bedroom windows, cloisters our confinement. Morning? Noon? Does time matter? Beside me, …
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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