Surrounded by Friends by Matthew Rohrer

selections from Surrounded by Friends by Matthew Rohrer

 

Poem for My Sister

 

She was thinking
of a hall carved deep
beneath a mountain
with her eyes closed
when she suddenly
opened them.
She was still on the ferry
but there was a difference
a terrifying music
was coming from the sky.
In this same town
lived a boy and a girl
who could be in different
rooms but know
what the other was drawing.

Poem Written with Basho

 

As fog clears away
from the sad lake
in the park
I cling like ivy
to my wife at night
midway across a bridge
in a complicated dream
of a hotel on the moon
I wake up with only broken bones
I don’t have the courage
to blink
it is Thursday
just like that
a great wind
boils the harbor
as though looking for someone.

 

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