She left me unknowingly,Leaving me distasteful,Leaving me wistful,Leaving me single again,Again, I’m punished by love! She left no goodbye notes,No goodbye kiss,Not even a peck …
Deep Thoughts
Bellowed and bellied
Bellowed and bellied, In heavy breath and daisy chain fingernails-I realise I have no idea Where my light switch is. I only know nighttime, And yellow wine bottles,And books on …
Brutalario
Amarte es como desangrarme las manos por las rosas que voy cortando en el camino; es volverse delirio para obtener el lirio y buscar Dioses …
Moira
‘I shouldn’t be here’, he thought, as he touched the wooden frame of the small house door. ‘I shouldn’t be here’, he imagined his father’s …
How Childhood Myths Became Sobering Accounts of Societal Injustices
Bailam corujas e pirilamposEntre os sacis e as fadas.E lá no fundo azulNa noite da florestaA lua iluminouA dança, a roda, a festa…[O Vira, Secos …
The World’s Worst Magician and Other Drawings
This collection of sketches brings together representations of ideas or elements typically associated with magic, from the stars and the sky, to cats and wise …
On the Peculiar Nature of Emotional Time Travel
Following my grandfather’s death, my mother kept several of his jackets and sweaters lodged away in the deeper part of her closet. She put them …
The Magic of Food
‘Food’, my Dad begins, stretched out languorous and pleasantly full after one of my Mum’s legendary Sunday dinners, in the back garden amongst the summery …
The Unexplained Beauty of Chance Encounter
Those of you who have read Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being know how beautiful and poetic circumstance can be. If you have watched Alejandro …
Magic Realism in the Age of Covid-19
You don’t need me to tell you, as so many news reporters, employers, business owners and governments have so often noted, that we are living …