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SWWIM Every Day
by Hilary Sideris

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

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.

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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