DS Maolailai
The storm
rain comes down clattering like a cat on piano keys and we are on foot, we are shifting a second- hand wardrobe down- hill from the Liberties, over the bridge into Smithfield. it's been threatening all day like this rain: something in atmosphere – hot and scotch- tapish sticky. light fills with the warm weight of waking to underwashed eiderdowns. and now heat is breaking. clouds chime four o'clock. |
DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent." His work has nominated eleven times for Best of the Net, eight for the Pushcart Prize 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), which included "The cauliflower", a poem that first appeared in The Young Raven's Review.