by DS Maolalai
your plum-rounded
face and your plum-
darkened pupils, soft
and black shiny,
the colour of plum-
purple plums.
morning, your skin
(smooth as fruit,
firm as fruit),
your cheeks
and your fingers
on a street corner
fingering plums.
finding the bruises
from the impact
on corners of crates
at the market. looking,
as always,
for the most perfect
example, as if any
could be perfect
as you.
DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent". His work has been nominated eleven times for Best of the Net, eight for the Pushcart Prize, 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)
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