Nearsighted. Citron Review. The short sighted song shouting tournament

First, here's the poem

The story behind the story. This one came from a poem I had in the trash pile from 2008 which I completely reworked from what I've recently learned about writing poetry. In hindsight, "Myopia" would have been a better title.


The facts about it: Using mnemonic devices to remember the difference between nearsightedness and farsightedness,  take the "near" and "sight" out of nearsighted to indicate you can see better at closer ranges. Eyes, vision, what you see, what you can no longer. Sometimes what you see doesn't include what you don't see. That's the story behind this one.





Far away? Vision?

my vision weakened suddenly
as dust kicking up like thick smoke

My thanks to the editors at The Citron Review for publishing me.

Lastly, watch "the short sighted song shouting tournament"



Also in this issue

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jennifer Falkner	Desert Sands	Flash
Helen Wickes	The Vagrant Spirit as the Good Humor Man	Poetry
P.J. Sambeaux	Cheap	CNF
Helen Wickes	Harrow	Poetry
Devin Galaudet	I Borrowed a Knife	CNF
George Dila	In Which I Defend my Decision to Run Away and Join the Circus	Fiction
D. Gilson	Layover	CNF
Tyler Koshakow	Matches	CNF
Timothy Gager	Nearsightedness	Poetry
Michael Chaney	Night Visitor	Fiction
Tara Deal	Side Trips in the Interior	CNF
Tina Tocco	Sink	Fiction
Helen Wickes	Still-Life on the Road to Los Ojos	Poetry
John Carroll	Suicides	Fiction
Peter Witte	Intersections Gallery	Photography
Helen Wickes	The Vagrant Spirit as the Good Humor Man	Poetry