Tag Archives: Creative Nonfiction
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A Poem
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Hannah White Rifling through my father’s belongings in his trailer days after he overdosed. His army gear: a tactical …
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In Heaven and Earth
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Susan Gilbert Guerrant For a long time I thought the snow saved me. I believed that my daily sojourns …
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Lord, Make Me Farfalle
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Angela Townsend Lord, make me farfalle. For too long I have been curled in upon myself. St. Augustine diagnosed …
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Belle-Mère
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Sandra Carlson Khalil When I think of her, I think of figs in Baalbek, growing in the shade of …
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On Faith’s Lips
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Mariam I. Williams The day she converted me from fat seven-year-old with an overbite and gapped front teeth …
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Lost in Translation
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Pinto True Biz (adj./ exclamation; ASL): Really? Seriously? Yes, really I am nine and my mother is on …
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It is the Responsibility of the Teacher
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
(after Grace Paley) by Emily Brisse It is the responsibility of the teacher to shift the desks, arrange the …
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Ninetyish
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Debbie Piercefield My youngest daughter (who is twenty-nine) announced on her last visit home that she needs me to …
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Mole Poblano
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Kathryn Jankowski Splashy with color and promising a horticultural paradise, garden catalogues once lured me into purchasing plants better …
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Brixton Born and Dreaming
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Felix Bill Brixton born and dreaming, I live in stolen weekends. Back where I belong for just long enough …
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