Spreading her gold on
the unheated guest room bed,
hoping to find her diamond
stud, she says again why
she can’t wear her high-end
hearing aids that crackle, catch
in her heat-damaged strands,
bangles, retells the tennis
bracelet story—one July years after
the insurance paid, she saw it
sparkling in daisies, a miracle,
but anyways she better go,
she’s lost the feeling in her hand
& hates this stupid phone.
Hilary Sideris has recently published poems in The American Journal of Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, Free State Review, Gravel, The Lake, Main Street Rag, Rhino, Room, Salamander, and Southern Poetry Review. Her latest book, Animals in English, poems after Temple Grandin, is just out from Dos Madres Press.
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