Michael Anthony
Michael Anthony
Jun 12, 2024
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Rose Through the Heart

I remember getting home from Christmas shopping.
I had just bought a lovely sweater for you,
when you called that afternoon and we spoke.
“We should stop seeing each other. It just seems
we don’t fit together all that well.”, you said.

And you were probably right about that.
But I occasionally think about that fucking sweater,
and still wonder if I had bought you the right size.
I’m sure it would have looked nice on you for a while.

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

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Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: San Francisco Bay Area - USA, USA

Favorite Poets: Bukowski

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Geezer

Geezer

10 months 2 weeks ago

that you should have kept using [you], instead of reverting to the [her]. I understand the change as representing thinking to yourself, as in after the fact, but I think it works better if you still are speaking to her as "You". I have a rose through a heart tattoo; I'm not sure of what it may represent to you, but I think it may be that the rose is a signifying, that one gives a rose to someone that has a place in your heart. So, yes, the title is apt.~ Geez.
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Lavender

Can't help but have a bit of a grin with this one - it just feels like you came out the better from it all. (I am going to pretend her name is Rose, simply because that would be so cool.) I enjoyed this, Michael!
Thank you!
L