Tag Archives: Poetry

  1. Notes on the Poetry Selections

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    October 1, 2023 by The Citron Review

    My parents were high school sweethearts who married young and I was born soon after. I remember a girl in …
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  2. Incidental Capture

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Julia Johnson   I know of seahorses caughtby bottom trawlers, some sold as trinketsor for traditional Chinese medicine.But some …
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  3. Ethyl Formate

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by David B. Prather   Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the …
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  4. Conservatory

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Nadine Hitchiner   Nothing happened in the fantasy—his skin is still fullof harps. It’s raining, outside the birdbath like …
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  5. Engine Study in Oil

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Nadine Hitchiner   I remember the rooibosin your hair—drunkenon and milky. Shy sermonof flowers, how they preach their ownbeauty, …
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  6. plucking the white bouquet

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    June 30, 2023 by The Citron Review

    by Abbie Doll   cotton dawns its makeupwith a palette of delicate greysapplying just the appropriate amountto contour gentle shadows …
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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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