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matthew rohrer
throwing shit we don’t need away
vacuuming up cat hair
that’s what I did today
I imagined it was morning
all day, beautiful weather
that didn’t follow me inside
stillness in afternoon
rooms, a Hammond organ
shadows of leaves
on white curtains
in the past, lost
in the beautiful crashing surf
an imperfect gift
I feel it if I think
about Li Po
drinking wine until
the pleasant sinking
of the ego into the night
and then he drank a lot
more and became sozzled
and drowned off
a little boat.
“Called back”
And he never tasted pie.
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Matthew Rohrer is the author of A HUMMOCK IN THE MALOOKAS, SATELLITE, A GREEN LIGHT, RISE UP and A PLATE OF CHICKEN. With Joshua Beckman he wrote NICE HAT. THANKS and recorded the audio CD ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY. With Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book GENTLE READER! It is not for sale. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem THEY ALL SEEMED ASLEEP in 2008.
His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He’s received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize, and was selected as a National Poetry Series winner, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Recently he has participated in residencies/ performances at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).
Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was raised in Oklahoma, and attended universities in Ann Arbor, Dublin Ireland and Iowa City. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.
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