someone said “everyone who has power is smiling”
or was it “everyone who has electricity is smiling
or “everyone smiling has electricity”
definitely not “everyone smiling has powerful electricity”
or “everyone powerful is smiling”
or even “everyone smiling is electric”
or “how powerfully everyone is smiling”
“how power electrically smiles”
“how smiles are electrically powerful”
“how powerfully electric our smiles are”
guitar by Stephen B. Antonakos
Poetry
Interesting. I spent some time in Mojácar, a village in the south of Spain, near Almeria, at an artists’ residency.
Electricity outages can really put things in perspective, just like your poem suggests about smiles and power dynamics in Mojácar. The way you play with words about energy and emotion is clever and thought-provoking. I once faced a long blackout during a storm, which made me rethink what really keeps our spirits up—turns out, Block Breaker moments are sometimes about inner light, not just electricity.