Another Katrin Talbot poem

Australian-born Katrin Talbot, a violist, photographer, and poet, who is well-known in Madison and the wider world as well, has been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with poetry. I find her words make it easier to think about our new normal where so much is suddenly unthinkable. Shared with permission.

. . .

Your Calendar on Pandemia

You watch each day’s 

commitments float by

 

Cancelled rehearsals, meetings

postponed concerts, readings

 

All now just words on

days

 

And you begin to realize 

there are two of you now:

 

the calendar you and

you, here, not there

 

and you can’t figure out

which could be the revenant, 

 

which

the ghost

 

— Katrin Talbot

Comments

[Kris P]

She has a gift!

[Lisa at Greenbow]

That is the question for sure. Beautifully put.

[Barbara H.]

So frustrated for Wisconsin today. Thanks for sharing her poems.