Fuoco

By Hilary Sideris

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!

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Every day
my love burns
down the house

almost, la moka 
on the stove, then 
off for a walk 

or soccer match.
If I accuse him,
he admits I’m right:
 
why fight about 
a fire not burning 
anymore or yet. 

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Hilary Sideris 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.) She works as a professional developer for the CUNY Start program at The City University of New York and lives in Brooklyn. 

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