Poetry by DS Maolalai
the sun rolls like marbles;
makes passage down
georges st. the sun
looks in windows
at old hanging clothes,
aging to pale
bleached out
detail. I roll
with the sun
and against
in a pattern. move
between traffic
and dodge
around passing
pedestrians.
drink coffee
in this early
march weather.
this first
dusty day
of the year.
DS Maolalai‘s poetry has been nominated twelve times for BOTN, ten for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and has been released in three collections, most recently Noble Rot (Turas Press, 2022). The author’s poem The Lawsuit was one of The Bluebird Word‘s early selections in the inaugural February 2022 issue.
