
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 272
BRENDAN MCLEOD
Things My Partner Said Today
Day 261
BRENDAN MCLEOD
We had to send in the army.
Day 265
BRENDAN MCLEOD
I’m not friends with people for them to be alive in my mind. That’s a job for the dead.
Day 270
BRENDAN MCLEOD
Remember when you left and came back today? That was something.
Day 263
BRENDAN MCLEOD
I’ve lost my mind a few times, and must say, it’s more interesting than quarantine.