Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Sitting Outside Her Door

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Jim Daniels   night breeze— pure near-silence of haunted single- digit hours the curb gentle in its slope like …
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  2. Notes on the Micros

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    After forty-some (increasing emphasis on some) odd years on this planet, in this body, I have realized that I’m not …
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  3. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    December 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Our Winter selections are filled with honest poetry about love and desire, loss and forgiveness, and the yearning for something …
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  4. Notes on the Micros

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    When it comes to Micros, we’re not the only game in town. And thank goodness. We have to decline an …
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  5. Currency

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by DS Maolalai   river’s alive. trout all overwriggling, silver as coins.as old money – punts –stags and other animals.do …
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  6. The Gift

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Judith Fox   Do you know who I am? I asked him. Unable to find my name,my husband burrowedthrough …
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  7. The Time Will Come When You Shall See

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Terri Drake   what the hummingbird sees: world as blur, body as fragile,heart the fluttering of wings,love hovering, body …
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  8. on unlikely teams & broken s(t)eams

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Jen Schneider   the gal on lane eight wears a pink chiffon gown. neither prom nor traditional digs her …
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  9. It Took Courage For My Disowned Mother To RSVP Yes To Uncle’s Wedding

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Eliot Li   Mother bounces around to “The Humpty Dance,” throws punches at the air in front of Uncle. …
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  10. Sand Dollar

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Julia Watson   Returning, she hugs the weeksback into our skin,places apologies in the dunes of our palms: brittleocean …
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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