by D.S. Maolalai
by Sean Bw Parker
my wife’s gone out drinking
with gui, the Brazilian
photographer. it’s fine – I trust
both of them implicitly. love both –
not equally, but close. they’re gone
dancing. I don’t like to dance
much. I’m taking the opportunity
to type in an empty apartment
where my thoughts can bang walls
and make embarrassed apologies.
I like diving forward like this:
like a man with a concussion
falling into a swimming pool.
living this way is much easier;
infidelity inevitably
someone else’s responsibility.
tonight the clocks go forward
one hour. they won’t even have
time if they want it.
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)
Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a writer, artist and musician based in Worthing, West Sussex. He lived in Istanbul for ten years, has written or contributed to a number of books and albums, and won a handful of awards. He was born in Exeter in 1975
