The Emperor

Matthew Rohrer

She sends me a text

she's coming home

the train emerges

from underground

I light the fire under

the pot, I pour her

a glass of wine

I fold a napkin under

a little fork

the wind blows the rain

into the windows

the emperor himself

is not this happy

After Catullus by Matthew Rohrer
If you, Tom, could see this inflight video map

Credo by Matthew Rohrer
I believe there is something else

Epithalamium by Matthew Rohrer
In the middle garden is the secret wedding

Garden of Bees by Matthew Rohrer
The narcissus grows past

Jangling by Matthew Rohrer and
Money cannot find me

Monkeys by Matthew Rohrer and
In another jungle the monkeys fret

Moss Retains Moisture by Matthew Rohrer and

Pavilion of Leaves by Matthew Rohrer
Central Park in a

Poem by Matthew Rohrer
You called, you’re on the train, on Sunday

Ski Lift to Death! by Matthew Rohrer
It was a basement with its own basement,

venus waning/apollo waxing his car by Matthew Rohrer
Then there was the night I decided that if I ignored everyone

will the red hand throw me? by Matthew Rohrer
Though our radiator is painted the color of the walls

		Contemporary Love Poems
		Coda by Marilyn Hacker
		corydon & alexis, redux by D. A. Powell
		Credo by Matthew Rohrer
		Epithalamium by Matthew Rohrer
		Fons by Pura López-Colomé
		Footprint on Your Heart by Gary Lenhart
		Hey You by Adrian Blevins
		It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi
		Long Distance II by Tony Harrison
		Love Poem by Graham Foust
		My Heart by Kim Addonizio
		Rime Riche by Monica Ferrell
		San Antonio by Naomi Shihab Nye
		syntax by Maureen N. McLane
		The Ear is an Organ Made for Love by E. Ethelbert Miller
		The Ecstasy by Phillip Lopate
		The Embrace by Mark Doty
		The Kiss by Stephen Dunn
		The Love-Hat Relationship by Aaron Belz
		The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem by Amy Uyematsu
		To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
		When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman