Tag Archives: Poetry

  1. The Man Remembers the Only Cummerbund He Has Ever Worn

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Charles Rafferty   My date had a wrist corsage — another first and last time confused with brandy. Her …
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  2. Two Poems

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    September 14, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Mark DeCarteret   auto-tune too much has been made about reality recently– the mind and its tagged dome, its …
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  3. More Unexplained Phenomena

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Jon Boisvert   A woman at the park throws a fried chicken wing to some seagulls by the pond. …
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  4. Cut

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Priscilla Atkins   The painting instructor said white is really hard to improve on; perfect blank of soaked and …
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  5. Verité

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Albert Pertalion    South Louisiana is an oral country. In bars, factories, oil rigs, boats, stories live in repeated …
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  6. Overnight Stay

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Francis DiClemente   The unattached go unnoticed in hotel bars and lobbies, watching couples and overhearing conversations. They retreat …
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  7. Home

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Afzal Moolla   Squirming through my skin, moulting once again. Roots flailing like rotting driftwood, thrashed against the merciless …
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  8. It’s in Sleep a Soul Will Know Itself

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Shadab Zeest Hashmi   I am neither a Persian nor a Mughal miniature; no toothless gazelle, ivory hand fan, …
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  9. 48-Hour Travel

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Diana Raab   Should you decide to take a safari here you might want to consider packing some meager …
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  10. Getting Rid of the Cat

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    June 15, 2012 by The Citron Review

    by Sandra Kolankiewicz   We all missed her afterwards, even my dad though she once pissed in his shoes. That …
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