This was an attempt at some sort of collaboration. I asked people on social media to contribute things that I could include in my end of the year poem. I thought I’d write a poem that juxtaposed my insular year of death and grief with other people’s stuff, but that isn’t what happened at all! I did use all of the ideas I was given, but it still came out as an incredibly personal account of my 2021. It was nice to mark it all as an event, and call it over, finally finished. Now I can look forward to 2022, a year I intend devote to poetry.
31st December 2021
Lateral G 