Poem found here: "My Brother's Insomnia" by Eric Pankey This poem is innocuous from beginning to end, and that's the appeal of this poem for me. It's not that there can't be a a bigger grandiose meaning from the poem, but, also, this poem isn't overly accessible. This poem just attempts to get into the mindset of the brother going through insomnia. The poem is written in couplets, but the structure and the content don't necessarily correspond until the end of the poem. The beginning of the poem focuses on what the "brother" goes through, "A boy ties (but will not remember how) / An intricate knot that slips at the slightest tug," Note that the parenthetical just releases the tension in the poem a bit. The question of "does the boy still have this insomnia" is vaguely answered with "will not remember how" making this poem more of a time piece rather than a progression. "He remembers reading that drops o...
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