Category Archives: Poetry

  1. I Saw My Soul Become…/Yo vi a mi alma ser . . .

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    December 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Gail Langstroth   I saw my soul become… jar cupboard with a latch jar with a screw-top lid in …
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  2. As Far as Hawks Go

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    December 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Alec Hershman   I woke with a pale hawk face, a stranger to instinct, and so a bit scrawny, …
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  3. Something Lasting

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    December 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Derek Graf   – After Jonathan Johnson Look at this: tonight it’s been snowing for twenty years. You said …
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  4. 11am Walking Down Forbes

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    December 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Gail Langstroth   On the curb a woman talks to a friend. Her tightly parted hair bares nubs of …
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  5. Lion Lights

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    September 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Jacqueline Balderrama   —after Richard Turere’s invention to protect livestock near the Kenyan savanna   We may never know …
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  6. Nightlight Ghazal

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    September 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Sarah J. Sloat   Up from smolder, smoke sits knitting its braid in the dark. Tuck the tip into …
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  7. Flesh Charm for Waifs and Strays gleditsia triacanthos

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    September 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Laura Madeline Wiseman   Dear thorns in a chain linked yard, sometimes sweetness fails to fruit. Dear nearly hairless. …
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  8. Nocturne with Light Cyclist

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    September 15, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Jonathan Travelstead   He flits along the cliff’s severe angles                                                                like a Lite-Brite salmon channeling …
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  9. The Town That Becomes This

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Boyko   after Sandburg This broken intersection where the barest of bones share a square mile with the …
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  10. Forgetting the Game

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    June 1, 2015 by The Citron Review

    by Jed Myers   Walking, soaked, in from the coast, backpack weighted with cloudburst, I found a road, and believed …
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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