EXCERPT from Matthew Rohrer's A SHIP LOADED WITH SEQUINS HAS GONE DOWN:
SONNET
He wrote amazing poems because he
was fucking a wizard. This perspective
mutilated all his expectations
and he was naked. The wizard threw him
a small thin towel to cover himself with.
I’m sitting in a small bar in Brooklyn
discussing his next move: surely his wife
will climb the pyramid and leap off it
because she is a butterfly. He is
everywhere down there, in the air. Inside
a tiny black bean. It’s not necessary
to live like this, we decide. We crumble
into our highballs, the city outside
consumes things like an enormous creature.
With front and back cover art by Ian Huebert, Matthew Rohrer's A Ship Loaded With Sequins Has Gone Down is, at 33 pages, an immersive experience, one comprised of both serial poems and sonnets.
SONNET
He wrote amazing poems because he
was fucking a wizard. This perspective
mutilated all his expectations
and he was naked. The wizard threw him
a small thin towel to cover himself with.
I’m sitting in a small bar in Brooklyn
discussing his next move: surely his wife
will climb the pyramid and leap off it
because she is a butterfly. He is
everywhere down there, in the air. Inside
a tiny black bean. It’s not necessary
to live like this, we decide. We crumble
into our highballs, the city outside
consumes things like an enormous creature.
With front and back cover art by Ian Huebert, Matthew Rohrer's A Ship Loaded With Sequins Has Gone Down is, at 33 pages, an immersive experience, one comprised of both serial poems and sonnets.