John Repp | Star Shine in the Pines

Star Shine in the Pines. Poems by John Repp, selected by Ron Mohring as Number 1 in Volume 6 of our Editor’s Series.

Release date:  July 21, 2024 [100 copies]
19 pages
$12.00

John Repp grew up along the Blackwater Branch of the Maurice River in the Pine Barrens region of southern New Jersey. A poet, fiction writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, Pennsylvania, Repp is the author of nineteen collections of poetry and short fiction, including two earlier chapbooks from Seven Kitchens Press (Madeleine Wolfe: A Sequence and Big Conneautee); The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic, Electric & Remixed, 1980-2020 (Broadstone Books); Fat Jersey Blues (University of Akron Press); and Heart of Joy: Stories (March Street Press).

The Mountain Goats

The mountain goats in Amy’s throat 
clattered down the shale on a Utah slope

last week & we believe her.
Yours truly just smacked a trash bee

cruising for sweet. Born too soon,
Aristotle had wisdom Byzantine

churchmen chose not to forsake.
The Cooper’s hawk who knows

we won’t object tugs the eyeballs
from a water rat disdained

by the dozing spaniel. It’s June.