Category Archives: Poetry
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The Things You’ve Learned
1April 4, 2016 by The Citron Review
by Ayla-Monic McKay That day, your best friend laughed. Your heart skipped and stumbled; the cold ocean at your …
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Cardboard Jeff
Leave a commentApril 4, 2016 by The Citron Review
by Kenneth Pobo When I told my best friend Ted that I liked guys, he stopped coming over. I …
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I Saw My Soul Become…/Yo vi a mi alma ser . . .
Leave a commentDecember 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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As Far as Hawks Go
Leave a commentDecember 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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Something Lasting
Leave a commentDecember 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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11am Walking Down Forbes
Leave a commentDecember 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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Lion Lights
1September 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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Nightlight Ghazal
2September 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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Flesh Charm for Waifs and Strays gleditsia triacanthos
Leave a commentSeptember 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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Nocturne with Light Cyclist
1September 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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