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Olivia
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by Zoé Mahfouz Olivia was my best friend. She told me her name came from Kalamata olives. When I first …
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Chewing Gum
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by Piper Pugh This morning, she wrote my name on a napkin in Lanna, folded it in my palm and …
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Day Ninety
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by Lindsey Royal Wayland April maple leavesuncurl their five-pointed tips.I hold my son’s hand. Lindsey Royal Wayland is a poet, …
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Hitchhiker 49
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Michael Czyzniejewski My first lie was that you could trust me, a liar’s frequent opener. But you needed that …
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In Heaven and Earth
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Susan Gilbert Guerrant For a long time I thought the snow saved me. I believed that my daily sojourns …
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Lord, Make Me Farfalle
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Angela Townsend Lord, make me farfalle. For too long I have been curled in upon myself. St. Augustine diagnosed …
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Belle-Mère
Leave a commentApril 26, 2025 by The Citron Review
by Sandra Carlson Khalil When I think of her, I think of figs in Baalbek, growing in the shade of …
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My Simplicity
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by Lindsey Royal Wayland The mason is stacking stonewhether or not the philosopher thinksabout the stone wall,whether or not the …
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On Faith’s Lips
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Mariam I. Williams The day she converted me from fat seven-year-old with an overbite and gapped front teeth …
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Lost in Translation
Leave a commentDecember 31, 2024 by The Citron Review
by Jennifer Pinto True Biz (adj./ exclamation; ASL): Really? Seriously? Yes, really I am nine and my mother is on …
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