Poetry by Hilary Sideris

       Nicholas Erwin CC




Throuple


About my daughter’s 
polyamory, my mother says 
Don’t they do that in Utah?
Isn’t it against the law? 
Because we’re old, we think
it sounds like too much work,
but if they’re happy, who are 
we to say? I try not to share 

news that isn’t mine. 
I’ve failed again. Mom,
too, was in a throuple, 
she claims, when Yiayia 
Calliope lived with us 
& woke her up from naps 
to share sex tips.

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Hilary Sideris has poems in recent issues of OneArt, Free State Review, Great Weather for Media, North of Oxford, Rhino, and Right Hand Pointing. She is the author of Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books 2019), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press 2019), Animals in English (Dos Madres Press 2020), and Liberty Laundry (Dos Madres Press 2022.) Her new collection, Calliope, is out from Broadstone Books. She grew up in Indiana and lives in Brooklyn.
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