Bio
DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as “a cosmopolitan poet” and another as “prolific, bordering on incontinent.” His work has been 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).
Trigger Warning
dogs walk
on grass
like springing
and mannequinned
elastic machines,
isn’t that right?
all legs
bouncing tension,
all hide
like a dishcloth
spun over a sugarbowl.
and are they happy all the time
when they look at us?
or is that just
what we feel
when we see them?