"Sonnet w/ Rose" by Matthew Yeager

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( October 18, 2017 [Sonnet w/ Rose]( [Matthew Yeager]( When I see you after so long not seeing you it is like picking up in side a fist the flopped red petals of a drooped red rose, and when you speak in the voice that could only be yours it is like staring into my fist top’s opening and seeing the rose as the rose once was. This is not just to say that the swirl and sweetness soon flops back open to what now is, though it does, but that when I see you after so long not seeing you I make sense of my feeling in terms of the rose, and carry it past goodbye. [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( Copyright © 2017 Matthew Yeager. Used with permission of the author. [illustration]( About This Poem “Trying to find an original conceit involving a rose is like trying to find a new way to cook an egg. From Guillaume de Lorris through Gertrude Stein, poets have known their way around roses for nearly seven hundred years. I tinkered with this little poem for nearly a decade.” —Matthew Yeager Matthew Yeager is the author of Like That (Forklift Books, 2016). He lives in Cincinnati. [Like That by Matthew Yeager]( Poetry by Yeager [Like That]( (Forklift Books, 2016) "Tender Buttons [Nothing Elegant]" by Gertrude Stein [read-more]( "Blue" by May Swenson [read-more]( "Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska [read-more]( Poem-a-Day If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a [monthly donation]( or [one-time gift]( to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today’s poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038 From Our Sponsors [Advertisement](