“Apple,” by Robin Rosen Chang (Poetry ’18)

2018 poetry graduate Robin Rosen Chang recently had two poems featured in the Leon Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Apple” below:

Apple

What if they’d never touched it,
       never wanted to disturb the bees 
swarming the orchard, 
       sticky before pollinating

the many fruit trees—fat figs, 
       blood oranges, 
pomegranates so red 
       they made the apples look brown.

Some people say it was olives
       they weren’t to eat.
Or seeds. Those sunflowers
       in the garden—

a distraction! Adam wanted
       to play hide-and-seek,
so Eve crouched
       between the stalks

while he ran in circles,
       searching wildly, 
yoo-hooing every few seconds, 
       till he stumbled over her. 

Read the poem in its entirety here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/issue-3-robin-rosen-chang/