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flotsam - ds maolalai

Writer's picture: theperiwinklepelictheperiwinklepelic


a window shines light

like a pocket-knife

blade. dust everywhere. 

flies and a lacquer of heat. 

sweat on a pillow, stained


brown and tobaccoish. endlessly

they moved. tangled clothes 

on the carpet like cowshits 

to spackle a pasture. in the sink

beside the kitchenette

the ends of an abortion – sticking,

a broken open teabag,

to the porcelain. flies. under there

bottles, flotsam, an old take-away box

and the twist from a champagne cork.


he held the screwdriver in one hand

and carefully reattached a chair leg. 




DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent". His work has nominated twelve times for Best of the Net, ten for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and has been 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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