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 7
BRENDAN MCLEOD
I’ve got this thing a lot of white people have called being a real idiot sometimes.
Day 6
BRENDAN MCLEOD
I never thought I’d pray to see tanks roll in.
Day 16
BRENDAN MCLEOD
Someone steals a Van Gogh from a museum in the Netherlands and I think,
that’s an interesting way to cope.
that’s an interesting way to cope.
Day 10
BRENDAN MCLEOD
Remember sports?
Day 18
BRENDAN MCLEOD
My roommate moved out today.