Category Archives: Poetry

  1. My Father’s Bed

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Chris Pellizzari   I visited my grandparents last night in Chicago Heights. They needed me to come over and …
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  2. It Took Us Years to Hear Helicopters Again

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Justine Sweeney   Their distant clap was whipped into our infant milk and fed to us during the night. …
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  3. Desperate, Bright

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Kate Michaelson   Fall is our favorite, my mom and I, both of us born into it. We celebrate …
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  4. Shoulder Season

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Meredith Seung Mee Buse   We stop at the bottom of the boardwalk steps to prepare: sneakers and socks …
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  5. Pick Me

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Steven O. Young Jr.   What sort of fantasy would it beif I didn’t see myself               strewn across your lap,left …
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  6. Carson McCullers was not married when she died, but she did tell Tennessee Williams that she had sex with Gypsy Rose Lee

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Kristen Field   She married Reeves McCullers twice.Divorced him twice. Which decisioncarries more weight? He told her on their …
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  7. Matchbooks

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by JoAnna Scandiffio   we miss those little souvenirsof where we ate when we were oncein love and kept the …
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  8. There Is No Penalty for Breaking the Law of Gravity

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Jeff Mock   Waking is a sort of fallingAs if through water, the slow Pressure against your bodyAnd against …
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  9. The Gloom Spices

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by John A. Nieves   Old clove by the baseboard leans like a downedmailbox but promises no                 missive. It has given …
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  10. 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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