I write this while you order
three cheese enchiladas
in green sauce, two super tacos
with tongue. You tell me pago
casho in this thing we speak
since we’ve been working from
our living & bedroom. I’ve got a chair
with wheels that spins. You have
a desk with buttons you can push
to make it go up, down.
Hilary Sideris is the author of five chapbooks, The Orange Juice Is Over (Finishing Line Press 2008), Baby (Pudding House Press 2009), Gold & Other Fish (Finishing Line Press 2011), Sweet Flag (Finishing Line Press 2014), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press 2019), as well as four full-length poetry collections, Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada Press 2014), The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful Press 2016), Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books 2019), and Animals in English, poems after Temple Grandin (Dos Madres Press 2020).She grew up in Indiana but has lived in Brooklyn for most of her life.