I don’t have a lot of favourite things. When somebody asks me about my favourite movie or my favourite musician, I tend to struggle to answer. There are so many of them, and I feel differently about them depending on my mood or what I’ve been thinking about as of late. I tend to give a generic answer or change the topic. It is simply too hard to pick. I should probably have a rehearsed answer where I just list ones I like, but I haven’t taken the time to do that. It seems limiting to me. Say I picked,...

On April 28th, 2025, there was a complete power cut across Spain and Portugal that lasted most of the day. There was no electricity, no phone service and no internet. Nobody knew what happened or how long it was going to last. This is how I experienced it. I had a late one the night before, and I wasn’t working that day, so I woke up around midday. I made a coffee and looked at the news. The only headline that caught my attention was this one. Suddenly, the power went out. My building is an old one so the...

Wintery me
always thought refrigeratorly
of mushroom cloud
wander between weedy water night
tear wet dandelion
investigate her thunder’d sound
on fishly road
howl side
hot cicada creak
daintily watch his mouth fall
while every petal rise