Tag Archives: Poetry
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Like a Balcony
Leave a commentSeptember 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Fasasi Abdulrosheed Oladipupo Like a balcony I see that I wish to see. The birds departing the snapping …
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Growing Up
1September 23, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Michele Reese When paring oranges, my mother used to turn the rind into a snake. She would stand …
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Tarot Reading: The Hanged Man (inverted)
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Connie Wasem Scott It’s clear he’ll never be happy. He’s strung up by an ankle and hangs from …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
Summer 2020 is a tumultuous time in our nation’s history and the world. Not one person has emerged unscathed, and …
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Soft Palms
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by JR Rhine There have always been those who’ve known soft palms, to whom the earth has never reflected …
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Occupation
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Ace Boggess Much of my work involves digging holes to fill them in so the patch of earth …
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Bones
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Shome Dasgupta of what once was: clavicles bonded by time, found between red-yellow eyes, once existed–howling heads of …
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Know No Better
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Shome Dasgupta let beams be slant: let it be, go forth boneless beams– bent like bent like bent …
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Litany with Downpour
Leave a commentJune 21, 2020 by The Citron Review
by Despy Boutris Rain christens the city, fog as heavy as buildings. The wind wafts between the trees, the …
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Notes on the Poetry Selections
Leave a commentMarch 19, 2020 by The Citron Review
“Focus, too, on small occurrences” is something I told my creative writing class this week. We were having a discussion …
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