Hilary Sideris

Christ Is Risen

We ate a lamb in Aliveri.

The whole body on a spit.

Kristos anesti, we said,

an Easter greeting in Greece.

Indeed he is, our host replied,

the way we’d say Bless you

after a sneeze. The lamb was his.

He knew how well it ate.

Tipsy on kokino krasi—

red wine—I put the lamb

on Instagram & in the morning,

took it down.

Hilary Sideris is the author of the poetry collections Calliope (Broadstone Books, 2024), Liberty Laundry (Dos Madres Press, 2022), Animals in English (Dos Madres Press, 2020), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books, 2019), The Inclination to Make Waves (Big Wonderful LLC, 2016) and Most Likely to Die (Poets Wear Prada, 2014). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Originally from Indiana and a longtime Brooklyn resident, she is a co-founder and curriculum developer for CUNY Start, a college preparatory program within the City University of New York.