Tag Archives: Micros

  1. Grief, Part I

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   I filled the mantle with cliché messages of condolence, sympathy, loose words like embrace instead of …
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  2. Grief, Part II

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   It fell, plop! to the floor, a thirsty palmetto bug in August, trying to stay alive. …
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  3. Grief, Part III

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   Like a child who says tickle me, tickle me, yet burns in her gut. Why does …
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  4. Grief, Part IV

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   I put its little mound in the sock drawer but it insisted on going for a …
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  5. Grief, Part V

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor   I let it suckle from breasts until my nipples bled. I shared dreams with it, cut …
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  6. Helen Mckenzie

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Peter Krumbach Here is the micro in its original formatting.     Peter Krumbach is the author of Degrees …
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  7. Psalm

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Samantha Marie Daniels   Baptized by the firstrainy day of the season—I’m looking for you,O Lord, but I can’t …
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  8. After

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    December 22, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Phillip Sterling Here is the micro in its original formatting.     Phillip Sterling’s books include Lessons in Geography: …
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  9. A Sticker on a Bucket of a Drawing of a Bucket and a Baby

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Emily Rinkema   and the baby is caught on the rim of the bucket and its fat round feet …
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  10. Where We Went

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    November 28, 2025 by The Citron Review

    by Tania Ravaei   We all ended up at Ricky’s grandma’s house when we died. One by one. Time’s weird …
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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