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Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry, and...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Love
Answer to a Child's Question
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Credo
by Matthew Rohrer
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
It Was Raining In Delft
by Peter Gizzi
It's all I have to bring today (26)
by Emily Dickinson
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson
Sonnets on Love XIII
by Jean de Sponde
True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
Two Loves
by Lord Alfred Douglas
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)
by Emily Dickinson
Poems About Weddings
A Slice of Wedding Cake
by Robert Graves
Chateau If
by Peter Gizzi
The First Marriage
by Peter Meinke
The Kiss
by Stephen Dunn
To My Dear and Loving Husband
by Anne Bradstreet
To Sylvia, To Wed
by Robert Herrick
When a Woman Loves a Man
by David Lehman
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Epithalamium  
by Matthew Rohrer

In the middle garden is the secret wedding,
that hides always under the other one
and under the shiny things of the other one. Under a tree
one hand reaches through the grainy dusk toward another.
Two right hands. The ring is a weed that will surely die.

There is no one else for miles,
and even those people far away are deaf and blind.
There is no one to bless this.
There are the dark trees, and just beyond the trees.




Copyright © 2001 by Matthew Rohrer. From Satellite. Used with permission of Verse Press.
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