{"id":506,"date":"2018-11-05T01:45:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=506"},"modified":"2018-10-12T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T01:51:06","slug":"two-poems-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/11\/05\/two-poems-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems by DS Maolalai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>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.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>An indictment of the craft.<\/h3>\n<p>if you&#8217;ve been to a poetry reading lately<br \/>\nand pictured<br \/>\nany of those guys<br \/>\ntrying<br \/>\nto eat<br \/>\na plate of spaghetti<br \/>\nwithout getting sauce on their shirt<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll know<br \/>\nwhat kind of<br \/>\nstate<br \/>\ntheir &#8220;art&#8221;<br \/>\nis really in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Complacency.<\/h3>\n<p>watching tv<br \/>\nin the morning<br \/>\nwhile you make coffee<br \/>\nand put jam on the toast &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>like going out<br \/>\nin a new shirt<br \/>\non a fresh<br \/>\nand perfumed day,<br \/>\nstopping by a garden<br \/>\nand reaching out<br \/>\nto break the stem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/11\/05\/two-poems-by\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-8a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}