{"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":"

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Tin Heart<\/h1>\n

By Karen Sideris<\/p>\n

Big red “K”<\/p>\n

Tin heart
\nThanks for the keychain.
\nDo you like it? I thought you would.
\nShe is proud.
\nBut why?
\nThe ugliest thing I’ve ever seen
\nSelected just for me, this loud strange trinket
\nClatters into the drawer of birthday gifts
\nForgotten.
\nNext year no gift comes
\nNo longer loud and strange
\nThe keychain goes in my purse
\nAt work, they gym, gas station, grocery store, and with me
\nUntil the day the tin heart breaks
\nLike mine.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

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’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":"

Tin Heart By Karen Sideris Big red “K” Tin heart Thanks for the keychain. Do you like it? I thought you would. She is proud. But why? The ugliest thing I’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…<\/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,"_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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t