Tag Archives: Poetry

  1. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    If spring is the time of change, summer is the season where we survey what that change has precipitated. This …
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  2. When the Swarm of Cicadas Come From Underground

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Julia Johnson   Billions of them, they say.I’ll be having a cup of milk.Or I’ll be shaving my legs …
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  3. Aguadilla

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Erica Vital-Lazare When you find me in the desert peel back the greening leaf the pulp sleeping in the …
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  4. At the Lathe

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Ivan Hobson   When the steel bar is turningand the carbide insert is cuttingwhat I have asked it to …
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  5. Trying to Write a Ghazal for Ben

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by K Dulai   For Benedicto Figueroa In front of Sweet Priscilla where you make lattes and tend to the …
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  6. Tulips

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Ion Corcos   Carpet on the steps, white-painted handrail,the way you left, the window light brighton your absence. Last …
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  7. Show Me Your Inner Goya

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Sheree La Puma   That part of you that cannot hear me weep.You’ve forgotten so much, the taste of …
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  8. The Short Form of Love (7)

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Wendy Taylor Carlisle   I relish the way my hand sweats into his and still he doesn’t let go. …
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  9. so much for the written word

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Byrne   wind pares the granite corners of blacknight midtown, carves my lungs, clips the ones and zeros …
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  10. Deception

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    April 2, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Catherine Hamrick   He painted promises,the ever turn of earthshimmering on an oak panel:emerald and terracottafloating on marine blue …
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IMAGE: Books, Julia Thecla, American, 1896-1973, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, Art Institute Chicago