The Nor’easter

Matthew Rohrer

Nor’easter a streetsign down
streetsign looks much bigger
down on the ground
it freaks one out
to gaze upon it
snow blowing sideways snow
blotting out the buildings
I walked 4.9 miles
to try this pizza

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Matthew Rohrer is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently Army of Giants, published by Wave Books. He has received a Hopwood Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Believer Book Award for his book The Others, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, won the National Poetry Series and was selected by Mary Oliver. One of his tattoos has appeared in two books of literary tattoos. He is a cofounder of Fence Magazine and teaches poetry at NYU.