Category Archives: Micros

  1. Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by John Linstrom   Darkling seed, paper-thin, consider all the growth you’ve seen: a shriveled tab three aphids wide erupted …
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  2. Sunday Blues

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Howie Good   A lot of people feel depressed on Sundays, starting about 4 in the afternoon. I’m different. …
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  3. Notes on the Micros

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    He was given a chance, but he just wouldn’t. In an interview the other day, the Vice President of the …
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  4. Start Again

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Alyssa Jordan   Hope can be dangerous, her father told her during those nights under starlight, when he taught …
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  5. Unmoored

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Virginia Eggerton   I’m not as sure of the ground now as I was when I was smaller. Now, …
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  6. Transfusion

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Virginia Eggerton   You have become so heavy that walking is stooping, carrying alveoli fat like grapes. They rattle …
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  7. Your Girlfriend as a Radium Watch Face

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Cathy Ulrich   She will be the ticking hand, the shining numbers, the one, two, three, click of seconds …
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  8. Notes on the Micros

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    Everything’s too big. If the number is written down, the writer stops writing, starts crying. Again. The deaths multiply in …
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  9. Dresser Drawer

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Bethany Mangle   Sarah lives in a dresser drawer, the one with the mismatched knob shaped like a bumblebee. …
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  10. Polaroid

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Charlotte Hamrick   For ten years you were frozen in a fairy dress. Sweet head of downy hair, lips …
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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