Category Archives: 2023

  1. When the Swarm of Cicadas Come From Underground

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Julia Johnson   Billions of them, they say.I’ll be having a cup of milk.Or I’ll be shaving my legs …
    Continue reading

  2. Yielding

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Angie Wright   I sit at the cherry writing table my son handcrafted for me in that year when …
    Continue reading

  3. Middle Distance

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Beth Kephart   She was a teen when the matter of her leg became the matter of a tumor …
    Continue reading

  4. The thorns

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Barun Saha   the thornsof a white bouquetmake their point out of blood magica red ribbon to bind fates …
    Continue reading

  5. In the cracks

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Barun Saha   in the cracks of obsidian nightthere is a secretlair we shed our skinand breathe fire   …
    Continue reading

  6. Wash Cycle

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Kayla Rutledge   Six days a week the sun ismaking church windowson the ground. When you leftthe day drew …
    Continue reading

  7. Socked In

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    Photo by Hillary Degani. by Kathryn Silver-Hajo   Thirty days and thirty nights we stayed in bed while the wind …
    Continue reading

  8. Nightlight

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Sophie Ezzell   A week after you move to Oklahoma for graduate school, you buy a nightlight. You’ve never …
    Continue reading

  9. The Science of Distancing

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by RL Farr   Biology His kitchen. Grey hesitant light. Morning at the second story twin house in the suburbs …
    Continue reading

  10. Fetal Kicks During a Blue Book Exam

    Leave a comment

    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Sally Simon   Dr. Herman stares at my basketball belly as he hands me the exam questions and a …
    Continue reading

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