Poetry, DS Maolalai
I sit in the spare room/office/box
bedroom – lean back and type
out my poems. in the sitting
room/kitchen my wife
watches a movie about a woman
with depression getting on
with her wedding day.
this evening she's annoyed
I've been smoking. I'm convinced
that it's how I'm inspired.
I try not to read into statements
like this; try to just write
them down honestly. to be a dog
is I think the most
honest thing. to walk
and to take in the world
like the air through a hvac.
DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent". His work has been nominated thirteen times for BOTN, ten for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and released in three collections; "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016), "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022)
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