lying on your side
on a mattress,
rough bedsheets,
thinking of work
and of falling
asleep. boats,
moored and knocking
in the spill
setting evening: a bay,
painted dark
deepest blue.
Bio and Image:
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)
