DS Maolalai - Stitches

DS Maolalai - Stitches

 

DS Maolalai has been nominated four times for Best of the Net and three 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)

He can be contacted at diarmo90@live.ie 

 

Stitches

 

like pinning a patch

on the sleeve

of a jacket, the city

bores down

with its steel

toward the sea. I drive out

each morning, west

on the M50

southbound,

see as the grey

and the endlessness

tacks up

to new ends. the mountains

south of Dublin;

even there

they have traffic

sometimes now, and the radio

doesn't lose the station. I hammer

my finger and push it

to past jazz

and to classical. mean

as a losing tobogganer

I slide into fifth

and slide forward, switching attentions

and stitching past lorries

which crowd up

like mountains

ahead.