Selling Sunset
After the Netflix series
Caught between a wedding and funeral
in lime green Manolos and black Gucci
twinset, Chrishell enters the room spilling hot
tea. Fantasy, the bathroom next level,
three-sixty views, a patio to die
for. At twenty-nine mill the price point spells—
‘Made it’. Justin trusts her with the listing—
spacious, light, more light and the commission.
On Sunset Strip, sipping martinis a
life of poverty floods back. She lets slip
teenage pregnancy, mother an addict.
Tears up. Woofie’s terminal. There’s too much
Calacatta marble. Ocean drops. For
buyers mesmerised by the swirls inside.
Derville Quigley is a writer from Monaghan Ireland based in Amsterdam NL. Her poems have been published with Trasna, Abridged, Hooghly Review, MASK Literary Magazine, Hidden Peak Press among others. She placed 2nd in Litro's Surreal and Strange Prose Poetry Contest 2022, 2nd runner up in the Mairtín Crawford Poetry Award 2024 and was highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2024. www.dervillequigley.net