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Matthew Rohrer

The author of several collections of poetry, Matthrew Rohrer's book A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series...
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		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

		Hotel Berlin by Cynthia Cruz

		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

		When Someone Says I Love You the Whole by Karyna McGlynn

The Emperor
by 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


Copyright © 2010 by Matthew Rohrer. Used with permission of the author.