Community. Sunset.
I drive home from Harold’s
Cross – meet the Clanbrassil St
traffic. feel the world heating
around me as sand becomes
glass. a sun sets the colour
of a page of an often-read
paperback. trees lean from gardens.
the pavements are pollen-
soaked pink. cars pause
among people like cattle
at market: we are all going home.
a man in a contractor
company van pulls up next to me.
looks at my car and then gestures ahead
toward a space. outside a cafe
three pigeons bustle under a table
looking for breadcrumbs or tenners
and anything else going spare.
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 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)