Hilary Sideris

East Ninth Street

There is no sadness

like a boarded-up

mint green frame

house, eyes, mouth

nailed shut, putting

its spin on Chris

and Anne, who lived

there seven years

before they split

and sold it at a loss.

Many years ago, as a child with 20/20 vision in Indiana, Hilary Sideris shot her neighbor with a BB gun.