DS Maolalai recently returned to Ireland after four years away, now spending his days working maintenance dispatch for a bank and his nights looking out the window and wishing he had a view. His first collection, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden, was published in 2016 by the Encircle Press. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
An indictment of the craft.
if you’ve been to a poetry reading lately
and pictured
any of those guys
trying
to eat
a plate of spaghetti
without getting sauce on their shirt
you’ll know
what kind of
state
their “art”
is really in.
Complacency.
watching tv
in the morning
while you make coffee
and put jam on the toast –
like going out
in a new shirt
on a fresh
and perfumed day,
stopping by a garden
and reaching out
to break the stem