Brendan McLeod is an award-winning poet, theatre creator, and musician. On his sixth day of social isolation, he started writing a poem a day. We’re posting these day by day, in non-sequential order, because time is weird now. It’ll be a book after that.

Poet In (Their Own) Residence

Day 15

April 28, 2020 • BRENDAN MCLEOD

1706 Ontario cases this morning. 21 dead.

Day 8

April 27, 2020 • BRENDAN MCLEOD

The people will come together.

Day 26/27

April 24, 2020 • BRENDAN MCLEOD

You should see me work out lately, what a piece of shit.

Day 14

April 23, 2020 • BRENDAN MCLEOD

Not gonna lie, sleep till noon.

Day 25

April 22, 2020 • BRENDAN MCLEOD

“I don’t think we should ever shake hands again.”- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, April 9, 2020