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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