Category Archives: Micros

  1. As Humans Screw Up Yet Again, Don’t You Just Wish Mother Gaia Would Step In?

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Patience Mackarness   For James Lovelock (1919-2022), who proposed the Gaia Theory When the glacier shrank, its people woke …
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  2. the graduation party you decided to skip

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Melissa Llanes Brownlee   fishing coolers engorged with freshly bought beer, uncles smiling and laughing, stroking cigarettes and ukuleles, …
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  3. Never Happened

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Abigail Chang   “Loving to see you!” someone shouts and I am stunned, who are they talking to but …
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  4. Purple Tent At The Edge Of The World

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Abigail Chang   is missing tent pegs, which really worries the thirty-four raccoons swarming inside, doing whatever, stockpiling melons …
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  5. Solus

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Aanuoluwapo Adesina   I have no siblings. My father had no siblings, my mother had no siblings, and God …
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  6. Dearest Jonathan

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Nayt Rundquist   Dearest Jonathan, Bostwick Giles Worthington finds himself unable to attend tonight’s gala at your glorious estate …
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  7. Family Photo II

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Milo Projansky Ono   She looks up from her perch on the concrete step. Her sweater is dark grey …
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  8. Notes on the Micros

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Being Micros editor at The Citron Review means that I have the honor of reading incredible work that pushes the …
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  9. Harvest

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Tracy Porch   The last time it rained, I was nearly eight years old. The day I saw water …
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  10. Notes on the Micros

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    German philosopher and critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno wrote: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” It’s oft-quoted, misquoted, embraced, …
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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