Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Semi-Precious

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Tim Kahl   My wife and I book separate flights. She says, coming back, you better not die in …
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  2. Sailing

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Margaux Griffith   Her hair (my mother’s) spun from her olive skin—chestnut. A photograph stole her timid,                                thin-lipped …
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  3. Pelts

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Joanne Lowery   Lying in a row on the museum table the pelts of badger, coyote, fox and mink …
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  4. Forgiveness

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Lesley Dame   Though it’s been years since I last heard your cocky voice on an Autumn evening, I …
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  5. Valley of Dry Bones

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Lisa Bellamy   “Your ancestors are composed of more than vital records…Behind the names and dates are tales of …
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  6. Two Poems

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    December 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Tim Tomlinson   Taylor Ham On White My brother did not commit suicide as a child— was I deprived …
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  7. Jackknife

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Trista Edwards   Today, I unfurl like the hem of your favorite sweater, forget you don’t care. When your …
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  8. Mirror

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Trina Burke   ———— After Andrei Tarkovsky’s film of the same name   The prismatic splay of sound. A mother …
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  9. My Muse is in remission

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Laura E. Davis   She’s gone ice fishing, I guess. Or maybe she’s taken a lover. That’s ok. I …
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  10. Instructions for Cooking Asparagus

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ashley Seitz Kramer   Your lover has requested palm hearts, which is the loveliest vegetable you’ve ever imagined (a …
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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