Burns Night: The Spell That Eats and Speaks     Burns Night is often presented as a cultural dinner. Haggis, toasts, recitations, nostalgia. That framing misses what is actually happening.   January 25 is a bardic working. Honoring Robert Burns is not about literary admiration. It is about activating a current where poetry operates as social magic, ancestral memory, and spoken fate. Burns did not write from abstraction. He wrote from land, hunger, humor, sex, labor, defiance,