Category Archives: Poetry
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The Vagrant Spirit as the Good Humor Man
1March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Helen Wickes Can’t ever plan for his brittle song, his rattling truck. Sometimes you know in the moment’s …
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Nearsightedness
1March 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Timothy Gager as strong winds lift the unfastened off the ground, you barely notice what races beneath me— …
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Still-Life on the Road to Los Ojos
Leave a commentMarch 1, 2014 by The Citron Review
by Helen Wickes First waking’s to sound, the dog hoovering flies off the floor, wheezing from sinus trouble and …
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Harrow
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by Helen Wickes You can hear the farmer with his tractor humming above the drying winds of March, the …
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Alstroemeria
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By Maureen Alsop Face down, though there was no space, something in you lay and would not get up. You …
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Penguins Used to Fly
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by Nels Hanson The waddling penguin gave up flight to swim, its body changed from bird to birdlike seal …
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Apology in Adagio
Leave a commentDecember 15, 2013 by The Citron Review
by Angela M. Brommel I ruminate. I have three cards addressed to you another purchased last week while carrying …
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Petoskey Stone
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by Maureen Alsop Families, a thing of water from the beginning, are an ancient fog we carry downhill as …
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Love in the Time of Godzilla
Leave a commentDecember 15, 2013 by The Citron Review
by Angela M. Brommel Sometimes we are running, and I don’t know where we began or where we are …
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The Dentist Who Can’t Control His Hands
Leave a commentDecember 15, 2013 by The Citron Review
by Abra Bertman He is a yanker, his metal cool as stone. Jar of amalgam, a little polish, friends …
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