John Robinson

John Robinson is a mainstream, American poet from the Kanawha Valley in Mason County, West Virginia. His 165 literary works have appeared in 115 journals throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Poland, Germany and China. He is also a published printmaker with 101 art images and photographs appearing in forty journals, electronic and print, in the United States, Italy, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Recent Work; Pennsylvania English, Xavier Review, North Dakota Quarterly. Talking River Review, Revolution John and Language, and Semiotic Studies.

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► John Robinson's microchap & (selected) poems are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

Kanawa

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Cover photo:

Kanawa County, WV center

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Black Maple

I used to think this black tree
were diseased,
as if a fungus had taken hold
in the creases of its bark—
anomy, growing midst other trees.

So I thought.

Texture stands out,
blackened as natural as noon sun.
You can see it fifty yards away
growing in the green wall of summer,
what once appeared dead
lives now, even more, through me.

White Apple Seeds

They sit numberless, humid days
dormant in hulls glazed
white, gleaming there,
unripe, pale shares,
deep mahogany lingering.
Like faint singing,
unborn fruit sleeps,
a harvest keep.
In fall, they soon ripen, wind-rocked,
unblemished, pocked,
russet-green ones,
red-blushed with sun.

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First published in A Time of Singing,
Intermezzo, vol.45, no. 3 fall 2018

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