KGB MONDAY NIGHT POETRY PRESENTS...
Matthew Rohrer + Pablo Medina + Tangie Mitchell
Monday, October 7, 2024
KGB BAR 85 E. 4th St. NY, NY 10003
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Readings start at 7:30 pm
Hosted by John Deming, Jada Gordon, Susan Lewis, Tyler Allen Penny and Selena Spier
Two drink minimum
*****
Matthew Rohrer
For a Farrier
Reading a kind of laborious
poem about rural things
and a horse is shot
for breaking its leg.
I still don’t get it.
Surely there’s a way
to heal a horse.
I text my friend
who is a farrier
(you know—
someone who shoes horses)
I say surely there’s a way
to heal a horse.
And I wait
but he doesn’t text back
he’s busy with the pounding
and clanging.
Raising his hammer
over a bright orange horseshoe
and pausing
because in his head
a line by Issa
can be heard.
-- Matthew Rohrer
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