Poem with That?

When I was a little guy, my way-smarter-than-me older sister, would come home from school and showcase her newly acquired knowledge…in all things. Most of which, let’s be honest, meant little to me. But the literature? Fantastic. Her reading assignments soon became my reading assignments. When she was done with the books that would accumulate around her desk, I read them and came to realize that the world extended far beyond what was to be found in comics. The books my sister brought home included all the literary classics, but her poetry books seemed outside the rules, conventions, and limits that governed the rest of the universe, and to me, who had often struggled with rules, conventions, limits, and the universe itself, they held special appeal. Years later, listening to a lecture on w…