Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Soft Palms

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by JR Rhine   There have always been those who’ve known soft palms, to whom the earth has never reflected …
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  2. Notes on the Micros

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    He was given a chance, but he just wouldn’t. In an interview the other day, the Vice President of the …
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  3. Occupation

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Ace Boggess   Much of my work involves digging holes to fill them in so the patch of earth …
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  4. Bones

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Shome Dasgupta   of what once was: clavicles bonded by time, found between red-yellow eyes, once existed–howling heads of …
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  5. Know No Better

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Shome Dasgupta   let beams be slant: let it be, go forth boneless beams– bent like bent like bent …
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  6. Litany with Downpour

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    June 21, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Despy Boutris   Rain christens the city, fog as heavy as buildings. The wind wafts between the trees, the …
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  7. Notes on the Micros

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    Everything’s too big. If the number is written down, the writer stops writing, starts crying. Again. The deaths multiply in …
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  8. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    “Focus, too, on small occurrences” is something I told my creative writing class this week. We were having a discussion …
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  9. Privacy in a Small Town

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Stephen Scott Whitaker   Ask someone who lives in a small town to swallow a Ferris wheel and they …
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  10. escapee

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    March 19, 2020 by The Citron Review

    by Leah Mueller   dry pod releases seeds to air, one by one, until each particle dissolves. now, brown 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