Get three a story from my mother: her father had a habit of cracking an egg on the tooth of a cow when it calved. something with protein. replenish the animal’s strength. but then one had twins and the family seems to have panicked – get three he said – hurry get three. she ran. she was less than a teenager even. grabbed what she found and he cracked the poor animal's tooth on a decoy. crows sometimes get in the henhouse apparently – anyone's easily fooled. life is more brutal on a farm than for roadkill and starved to death spiders by windows.
DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as "a cosmopolitan poet" and another as "prolific, bordering on incontinent". His work has been nominated fourteen times for BOTN, eleven for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and 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)
