Crime of Honor

By Hilary Sideris I dream I’m a man in love with Vincenzo. We’re in our 2020 Tucson. He can’t see my pistol as he parks, confesses decades of betrayal. È vero— he twists the figurative knife—I love somebody all this time! I pull the literal trigger, toss the gun in the river. I’m old by

Of Iron

by Hilary Sideris I know ligo, a little, Ellinica. I make a pot of avgo- lemono feeling a fever coming on, pray to small gods called saints who do favors & specialize. A semi- colon is a question mark in Greek. Sideris means blacksmith like Ferraro & Eisenstein, but siderenios, of iron, said to a