{"id":57,"date":"2023-10-19T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T09:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/innverse\/?p=57"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T09:09:14","slug":"insomnipotence-by-simon-rennie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/innverse\/2023\/10\/19\/insomnipotence-by-simon-rennie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Insomnipotence&#8217; by Simon Rennie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Read at Inn Verse November 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Insomnipotence\n\nThese days I sleep too little or too much;\nand while I like my life, or most of it,\nsleep, as prize or foe, has the power to touch\n\neach moment, to rule the roost as it sees fit\nthrough lingering effect or potential.\nWhere did I go? Do I have to admit\n\nthat I am (I think therefore) not in full\ncommand? Hereby destined to alternate\nbetween giddy dislocation and slothful\n\ndrowse? My fear is that I hallucinate;\nthat one day, with leg spasm and arm swing,\nI act out my dream self in desperate\n\nbattle with demons of half-lit evening, \neven as the sun shines and the birds sing.<\/strong>\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simon Rennie is Associate Professor of Victorian Poetry at the University of Exeter. He co-founded Inn Verse in 2007 and has hosted it off and on ever since.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read at Inn Verse November 2021 Insomnipotence These days I sleep too little or too much; and while I like my life, or most of it, sleep, as prize or foe, has the power to touch each moment, to rule the roost as it sees fit through lingering effect or potential. Where did I go? 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