my new work best
friend has a daughter
and husband. they live
just 2 buildings

from my place. I give
her lifts in each
3 mornings in 5
and give her lifts
home each 2 evenings.
my wife jokes
about swinging

and having affairs.
I could never do that
to someone’s daughter.

…

DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as “a cosmopolitan poet” and another as “prolific, bordering on incontinent”. His work has nominated twelve times for Best of the Net, ten for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and has been released in three collections; “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016), “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022)