Category Archives: Poetry

  1. Mother, Edith, at 98

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    March 11, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Michael Lee Johnson   Edith, in this nursing home blinded with macular degeneration, I come to you with your …
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  2. End of Days

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    March 11, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Richard J. O’Brien   cicadas lay dead in the street on brittle ruined wings, their armored bellies warmed by …
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  3. Addendum

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    March 11, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Howie Good   I like the way it sounds like a splash of bells, and a giant stumbling heart, …
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  4. Valse Marilyn

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    March 11, 2010 by The Citron Review

    by Hugh Fox   Valse Marilyn (1927) (Rudy Wiedoeft), “Come on, baby, turn off that eat-up-the-day crocodille dawn, pass those …
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  5. Two Poems

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Daniel Romo Homeroom The wide receiver who plays for New York, Whose team actually plays in New Jersey, Accidentally …
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  6. Two Poems

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Khadija Anderson   blaze I had to jump out the window over and over brittle and bouncing another chaparral …
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  7. Point/Counter

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Paul Handley   When you say the screw top Red is sacred, having been Consecrated by you in private, …
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  8. Do Wa Ditty (A Love Song)

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Howie Good   We’re the hidden driveway mentioned by the hidden driveway sign black and purple petunias like children …
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  9. Unraveled

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by Janet Butler   I gathered summer in patterns sky blues and warm greens stitched with a glint of gold …
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  10. The Sun Appears to Drop

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    December 10, 2009 by The Citron Review

    by L. Ward Abel   Sitting inside the blues oranges pinkish reds of sunset arms on the chair feet on …
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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