May you never be
so well informed
that sunny side
up eggs for dinner
don’t sound lovely.
I don’t wish being
spoiled or right on
anyone. May your
taste in wine not get
so good you can’t enjoy
Casal Garcia vinho
verde with a friend
you haven’t seen since
2019. And may a pot
of simmering onions
make you hungry
until you die.
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.