Category Archives: Poetry

  1. The Janitor

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Danny P. Barbare   Mopping my way down that long hallway I start alone like always then the floor …
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  2. Sleight-of-Hand

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by José Luis Gutiérrez   It’s the reason that poem about a bonobo aspiring toward celibacy doesn’t work. Sense being …
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  3. The Sticks

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by J.D. Isip   The trees in Seoul and in Songton are no thicker than my legs They say the …
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  4. BATHING IN THE HOT SPRINGS, ESALEN, 2008

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Carine Topal   I was naked from the start showering among strangers against a backdrop of ocean and sky, …
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  5. Breaking Inside

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Chad Haskins   3:00 A.M., twenty years in the making, finally…the bitch is leaving, forty-eight hours straight. Half-brother remains, smoking …
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  6. How My Daughter Learned to Handle Money

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by George Such   As we amble through Napoli, Bethany peeks inside a market and decides she wants an apple.  …
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  7. PATHS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Ron Yazinski   There is dawn in the Dalai Lama’s smile. Though there are thousands of students in the …
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  8. October Canning Tanka

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    March 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Bryan Narendorf   All morning, apples peeled and cored, stew in ginger syrup to hot pack, seal and store, …
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  9. cat food, etc. and good friday (butcher shop revisited)

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by John Grochalski   cat food, etc. four cans of liver and bacon pate four cans of seafood feast a …
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  10. Love in a Storm Factory

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    June 7, 2011 by The Citron Review

    by John Grey   Thunder is just the shout and stumble of clouds. Lightning’s nothing but a cigarette being lit …
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