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 now, easy
to catch & jail, but sure
my sentence will be light,
passionate as I am,
inclined as judges are
to think of my honor.
Hilary Sideris is the author of the poetry collections Calliope (Broadstone Books, 2024), Liberty Laundry (Dos Madres Press, 2022), Animals in English (Dos Madres Press, 2020), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books, 2019), The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful LLC, 2016) and Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada, 2014). She is a co-founder and curriculum developer for CUNY Start, a college preparatory program within the City University of New York.