Issue Forty - Summer 2022

The History of Art

By DS. Maolalai

standing with naggins,
discussing art, poems
modern literature
on a corner
in stonybatter
near the lilliput
press. I don’t know
what is different
about our
public drinking,
but something
we consider
is different: the history
of art. fallon says
a friend of his
is friends
with the owner. I think
of my bookshelves,
my printed piles
of poems.
drink beer
very long
from my can.

Copyright Maolalai 2022

D. S. Maolalai has received nine nominations for Best of the Net and seven for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry 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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