Roses (by Gerald Stern)
1There was a rose called Guy de Maupassant,
2a carmine pink that smelled like a Granny Smith
3and there was another from the seventeenth century
4that wept too much and wilted when you looked;
The rest of the poem cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.Publication Notes:
Gerald Stern, American Sonnets: poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002). This
poem is reproduced on the Griffin Prize Web Site (from a volume on the 2003 Canadian Shortlist).
RPO poem Editors:
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition:
2011