Konstandinos Mahoney
London, UK

Konstandinos (Dino) Mahoney, won publication of his collection, 'TUTTI FRUTTI' in the Sentinel Poetry Book Competition 2017, and is winner of the Poetry Society’s 2017 Stanza Competition. Recent poems in Butcher’s Dog, Tentacular, The New European. He is also part of DINO and the DIAMONDS (shortlisted for Saboteur Award, 2018) a group that performs his poems as songs. Dino teaches Creative Writing at Hong Kong University (visiting lecturer).

Date poem was written: 4th June 2020

Wilding 

Unplugged from the office he works from home.

Grass, beard, hair uncut, grow long. 

He drifts from his laptop, mutes his phone, 

lingers in his sleepwear through lazy afternoons. 

Bare-chested he roams the sunny garden,

roaring, stalks his fleeing mite, 

pouncing, trumpets flatulent raspberries 

on milky skin. The morsel writhes, 

laughter on the brink of tears.

The mother looks up from her spreadsheet, 

sees her mate on all fours mauling their cub – 

suggests a board game.