Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Afterimage

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Joshua Zeitler             for Lynn   I look for you when the window is open and the world a …
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  2. View of Mountains from the Safeway Parking Lot

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Martha McCollough Click here to read the poem in the original formatting.     Martha McCollough is the author …
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  3. Two micropoems

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Dmitry BlizniukTranslation: Sergey Gerasimov   It’s so easy to breathe after rain.God has just fed his fish. *** Early …
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  4. Tomorrow, Tonight

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Tom Walsh   Tomorrow, we’ll pull on our boots, roll up our sleeves, and pick through the cinders of …
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  5. Grief, Part I

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   I filled the mantle with cliché messages of condolence, sympathy, loose words like embrace instead of …
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  6. Grief, Part II

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   It fell, plop! to the floor, a thirsty palmetto bug in August, trying to stay alive. …
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  7. Grief, Part III

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   Like a child who says tickle me, tickle me, yet burns in her gut. Why does …
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  8. Grief, Part IV

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   I put its little mound in the sock drawer but it insisted on going for a …
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  9. Grief, Part V

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   I let it suckle from breasts until my nipples bled. I shared dreams with it, cut …
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  10. 32 Degrees Exactly

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Jeffrey Hermann   I’m walking home in the rain when the rain turns to snow. It floats down and …
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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