A Milton Bradley Game by Hilary Sideris
The object, for a girl
eight to fourteen, is to be
ready, to swoon if he’s
a dream, recoil if he’s
creepy, having acquired
three color-coded cards,
assembled an outfit to
counter his, whoever is
behind the question mark.
Will it be swimming
or a dance? Will he
blush, stammer, take
her hand? In shock,
will she slam the door
on the five o’clock
shadow of his cheek?
About the author:
Hilary Sideris’s poems have appeared recently in Qwerty, Southern Poetry Review, Spillway, and Serving House Journal. She is the author of Most Likely To Die, a book of poems in the voice of Keith Richards from Poets Wear Prada Press. She lives in Brooklyn.
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