Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    Sometimes, quick as a slip, memory deposits us in a place we have not visited in years. I like to …
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  2. An earth, a leash

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Daisy Bassen   It’s been impossible to name the fox kits,Though we’ve tried, impossible to recognizeWhich one has just …
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  3. Accidents

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Megan Carlson   The sea monkeys were dead. The ones Dad’s girlfriend bought. An accident, Grandma said. The vacuum …
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  4. B’reisheet

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by RB Brown   Those early days, finding its way to the shore the breeze was uncertain. A full-grown bear …
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  5. Waking Up

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Celeste Hurst   Who cares about the robin? Spring begins when the bones of the sycamores clutch at the …
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  6. Proposal

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Judith Shapiro   It’s going to be an epic proposal. Twenty of us, seated in a big circle on …
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  7. Ars Poetica

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Judith Fox   after the installation Ttéia 1, C by Lygia Pape (2000/2021)        In this shaded gallery …
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  8. Forest Lawn

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    September 23, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by K.S. Dyal   I don’t know why we hung out in the cemetery, tank tops dusting mausoleum walls in …
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  9. Surrender

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Christopher Ankney   The unwatched hot iron, I don’t trust it not to lay on the blouse, ignore how …
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  10. Eating Chå Cá Lã Vong in Texarkana

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    June 22, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Annette Sisson   In childhood I thought rice a strain of wheat, an eastern branch  of the genealogical  tree …
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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