Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Engine Study in Oil

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Nadine Hitchiner   I remember the rooibosin your hair—drunkenon and milky. Shy sermonof flowers, how they preach their ownbeauty, …
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  2. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    If spring is the time of change, summer is the season where we survey what that change has precipitated. This …
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  3. Notes on the Micros

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    Sometimes we’re lucky to find a handful of pieces that seem as if they were made for one other. Each …
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  4. When the Swarm of Cicadas Come From Underground

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    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 …
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  5. The thorns

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    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 …
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  6. In the cracks

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    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   …
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  7. Aguadilla

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Erica Vital-Lazare When you find me in the desert peel back the greening leaf the pulp sleeping in the …
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  8. At the Lathe

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Ivan Hobson   When the steel bar is turningand the carbide insert is cuttingwhat I have asked it to …
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  9. Trying to Write a Ghazal for Ben

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by K Dulai   For Benedicto Figueroa In front of Sweet Priscilla where you make lattes and tend to the …
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  10. Tulips

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Ion Corcos   Carpet on the steps, white-painted handrail,the way you left, the window light brighton your absence. Last …
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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