Hilary Sideris
Real News
1. A White-Tailed
single-antlered
Harlem deer
seeking a mate
in Jackie Robinson
Park is dead. The buck
became the subject
of a heated back
& forth over its fate
between our mayor
& governor.
2. Rescue Workers
shatter Suburu
windows only to find
a fake widow with roses
on her gown, blemishes
down her arm from too
much sun. Her owner,
a CPR instructor, curses
cops but goes uncharged.
The chief’s relieved to
make it known that no
white woman froze in
his chic town & if one
did, his men would
notice & respond.
3. I Wondered,
said Beddal,
churchwarden
at St. Thomas of
Canterbury, why
Mr. Michael would miss
the midnight mass,
his garden decked out
as it was with Christmas
lights we could see
from the bridge.
Hilary Sideris is the author of Most Likely to Die, poems in the voice of Keith Richards (Poets Wear Prada, 2014) and The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful, 2016). She lives in Kensington, Brooklyn. Her new chapbook, A House Not Made with Hands, inspired by Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada.
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