Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Those That are Deer

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Julie Esther Fisher   When you lay your cheek on the pillow next to minehad you begun to change …
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  2. Hail Season

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Hunt Sanders   The air gets everywhere owing nothing to the dog in our house whichwe argued to rehome …
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  3. Shells

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Wendy BooydeGraaff   We are both wary of pryingopen the mussels, what squirming soft flesh we will find there, …
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  4. Oz

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Marisa P. Clark I could understand, my father said,if you were watching John Travolta.He’d caught me, hand jammedinto jeans, …
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  5. Loss, Loose, Lose

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Dorothy Wall   how a single s or ocan move a shattering lossto loose changeor your glasses whenyou have …
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  6. T.G.I.F. but I’m Afraid I Can’t Keep Our Nudes

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Jennifer R. Edwards The texts I want to reread are the ones I mustdelete. Desire leaves overwhelming evidence.There are …
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  7. Atrophy

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Daniel Brennan I tell myself he has a big heart becausehe has a Keith Haring tattoo and, naturally,that makes …
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  8. This relationship

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Claudia Excaret Santos For screen reader accessibility please read below. T[1]h[2]i[3]s[4]   r[5]e[6]l[7]a[8]tionship [1] We do love each other [2] …
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  9. Matchsticks

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Clayre Benzadón Stack of hay, a needle inside of a puzzle.  It’s his, the goblet of our collarbones match.  He either …
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  10. The world is ending without lemons

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    October 5, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Clayre Benzadón and damn, these chickens can’t layeggs anymore, but they still runlike the last zesty citron bomb at …
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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