“Burning the Calendar” was published in the Winter 2021 issue of Rust & Moth. The poem was written after the first year of Covid. I literally fed the months of our 2020 calendar into the fire one by one and watched the year burn, a cathartic excercise. It feels so far off now, yet it was only three four years ago (see how I still get confused by time?) Of course, that was the time of the January 6th insurrection and here we are again, about to re-enter the maelstrom for a second time. One thing I value about poetry is that it helps mark time in an otherwise topsy-turvy world, which often feels like living in Alice in Wonderland.

Read its companion poem “Dear Human” at Rust & Moth.