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 coffee
on the balcony,
looking at the river
and a woman
on her balcony,
looking out
at the river.
the diluted
red light
as it falls
between buildings
like red coins
being entered
in a vending
machine slot.
About the Author
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).
