Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Juneteenth 2021

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Vogue M. Robinson   “Black People once free, did not gather in mobs and hunt,   despite all the same …
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  2. lunar

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Frenci Nguyen   i map my soul in grains of sand: the nights we huddled up in tents on …
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  3. Mind Training Slogan 34: Don’t Transfer the Ox’s Load to the Cow

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    March 21, 2022 by The Citron Review

    by Brandel France de Bravo   I’ve measured out my life in dryer lint. Do I dare, with my father’s …
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  4. The Problem With Not Owning a Ladder

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Rafferty   People head home under all sorts of circumstances – the road made blurry by a third …
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  5. Lives of Truffles

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Alison Hicks   Homing, it’s called, when fungal hyphae attract other hyphae fuse and branch to form a spreading, …
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  6. The Ghost Hotel

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Douglas Cole   Those who have gone before us are available for consultations after lunch in the fire room. …
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  7. Hunger

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Sher Ting   饭1 and 烦2 Funny how two words phoneticised the same in Chinese but meant vastly different …
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  8. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

    When I think about the poems of Citron’s winter issue, one word that comes to mind is curiosity. Curiosity, I …
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  9. Notes on the Micros

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    December 22, 2021 by The Citron Review

      Today I’m going to a house between 10am and 4pm to pick up a bottle of award-winning marinade. It …
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  10. There’s no answer to the way the body remembers

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    September 23, 2021 by The Citron Review

    by Peter Grandbois   The pain in your hip dipping like a swallow over the grass The ache in your …
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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