DS Maolalai
DS Maolalai

DS Maolalai has been nominated nine times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, "Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden" (Encircle Press, 2016) and "Sad Havoc Among the Birds" (Turas Press, 2019)

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One shouldn't fit

A poem by DS Maolalai

on a bus, and seeing the mind inside each of these people. pearls among oyster-slime. a lady who smells. a man with a book. a kid looking somewhat uncomfortable. the cone of thought backward, expanding all colours and size – infinite large in shape and not knowing collision. thought in there. there’s so much person […]

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The logging camp

A poem by DS Maolalai

and life in some town in the countryside is nothing to this: waking each morning with my wide open window, and trucks beating jazz drums on the street underneath. bins being emptied. people walking on pavements steady-pacing one direction ever downward – like a river by a logging camp sending pine toward the sea. drinking […]

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