Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
The poem "Another Lullaby for Insomniacs" by Stallings is written in the Pantoum form. In Pantoum poems, the second and fourth line of the preceding paragraph are repeated as the first and third lines of next paragraph respectively. By the title of the poem, it seems that the poem is about insomniacs but upon reading it, we find out that the poem is about a guy who is unable to sleep because his lover has moved on and found another guy. She did so because he didn't put a ring on her finger and didn’t get engaged to her.
Failure
In the poem "Failure," the poet talks about a guy who resists the love of a girl and goes out to see other gilded girls. Those girls leave him sooner or later for someone else. At the end of the poem, the guy returns to the girl who loves him unconditionally because he was a failure at keeping other girls.
First Miracle
"First Miracle" is about the birth of a baby, an event which is no less than a miracle. The poem begins with the baby being delivered out of his mother whose body is torn like a pomegranate to bring the baby to this world. The next lines describe how the baby breaks the spell with his first yell. The next lines tell how his mother's breasts ache whenever he cries or is hungry. The poem describes how a mother is such a miraculous being; she makes milk out of her blood.
