{"id":1008,"date":"2011-07-06T06:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T06:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:52:04","slug":"tin-heart-by-karen-sideris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/tin-heart-by-karen-sideris\/","title":{"rendered":"Tin Heart by Karen Sideris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ksideris1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1011 lazyload\" title=\"ksideris1\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ksideris1-278x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ksideris1-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ksideris1.png 893w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 278px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 278\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tin Heart<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Karen Sideris<\/p>\n<p>Big red &#8220;K&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tin heart<br \/>\nThanks for the keychain.<br \/>\nDo you like it? I thought you would.<br \/>\nShe is proud.<br \/>\nBut why?<br \/>\nThe ugliest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen<br \/>\nSelected just for me, this loud strange trinket<br \/>\nClatters into the drawer of birthday gifts<br \/>\nForgotten.<br \/>\nNext year no gift comes<br \/>\nNo longer loud and strange<br \/>\nThe keychain goes in my purse<br \/>\nAt work, they gym, gas station, grocery store, and with me<br \/>\nUntil the day the tin heart breaks<br \/>\nLike mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p>Karen Sideris lives in Mesa, Arizona with her husband George. She works for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University and is a reader for Hayden&#8217;s Ferry Review. Her fiction has been published in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine and various e-Zines, where she has also published poetry. Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Karen has degrees from Miami University and Wright State University. Karen volunteers at a high needs school in the Phoenix Elementary School District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tin Heart By Karen Sideris Big red &#8220;K&#8221; Tin heart Thanks for the keychain. Do you like it? I thought you would. She is proud. But why? The ugliest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen Selected just for me, this loud strange trinket Clatters into the drawer of birthday gifts Forgotten. Next year no gift comes No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}