The Literary Forest Poetry Magazine

potatoes

sitting

on butter

like a pile of organs

and plates

of yellow

blood. the skin

so thin, so sweet,

and satisfying – 

moreso, to bite, 

than any apple. and the heat

compressed inside

and the oil like crushed 

flower petals

or, somehow,

like wild bread

found on a mountain,

grown 

in its natural 

state.

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