Citrus Springs

Citrus Springs isn't just a bunny-dotted, zinnia-speckled city nestled in Florida's rare dewy hills. It's a state of mind, albeit an altered one. With "In Bloom" on blare, Paige Johnson gives life to the Wonderland tarts and bitter Xanax fiends who reside in tangerine dreams. Whether these 40+ illustrated poems tell the tale of South Beach sugar babies or Bay Area scrapers-by, the characters are always in search of ecstasy, novelty, meaning. An infatuation so intense, it's psychedelic.

Poems included: Lemonade Haze, Communion Wafer, Candy-Flipping, Cornfield Confidants, Trailer Trash Blast, Manifest Destiny, Sugar Mill, Lyrica, Hikers' High, Whispering Pines, Para-Socialite, Shades of Cool, Sugar/Salt Baby, Cream Charger Queen, Rush Hour, Streetlamp Saviors, Suncoast Blvd., Miss Macchiato, Boca Raton Lead-On, Valentine (H)ex, A Row w/ Roe, What Does Bal Harbor?, When Bay Harbor Sinks, Storm Chasers, Terrarium, Psychi(delic)artist, Tunnel Vision, The Ick, The Look, So Long Sunshine, The Flat Side Of Fruit, Rainbow River, Sweet Tooth, Heavy Hitter, Orange Crush, Paradise Tossed, American Dream, 2-FCKD, La Petite Mort, Sliced Candles, Pink Moon Proposal

This is the second installment of the four-part series, Seasonal Dissociation: Poetry for Distancing Dates and Doses.

Other titles are: Percocet Summer, Cracked Leaves & Autumn Lines, and Aurora Shards of Winter