between the sea and the flat-bottomed raincloud a peach glow silhouettes half a million tonnes of seemingly still cargo
slept with a podcast
to awake in a loud buzzing
unaware I had fallen
asleep I reached for
my phone but the noise
was from a less personal
infrastructure a rainy
brownout followed
today by intermittent
showers and blackouts
which have made up
some days each month
since moving.
months ago driving east I heard
another buzz
more like a scream and saw
on the pole in front of me
a transformer release
smoke then flames.
I was out of reception
but meant to call it in but
forgot but crews were there
the next few times I passed.
otherwise today was banal
some code call scheduling
an invoice no cooking
hopefully yoga after
this glorious sunset.
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