Hilary Sideris
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Could I labor better,
repress my yes hiss
in the power of a higher
wage, a multitasking
tongue, a sticky kiss
in the Employees Only
pantry over free cookies?
Can you breathe life
into me, mortal to whom
I submit my report,
by whom I’m blessed
when I sneeze.
Hilary Sideris holds an MFA from The Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, Mid-American Review, The Southern Poetry Review and Swink, among other publications. She is the author of the chapbooks The Orange Juice is Over, Gold & Other Fish, Sweet Flag, Baby and A House Not Made with Hands. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.