Brother
the heart monitor
revealing my brother’s dream –
a late, late sunset
Travis Schuhardt is a writer from Long Branch, New Jersey, who specializes in short-form poetry and fiction. His writing is informed deeply by his relationship to his older brother, who spent much of his childhood in-and-out of hospitals due to a prolonged illness.
This is a beautiful haiku, Travis.
It’s inspiring to think that something like an EKG tracing–cold and clinical- could give rise to a beautiful comparison to a sunset.
Just for my own understanding, I’d like to ask/confirm if the EKG tracing reminded you of a horizon at sunset? Is this something you discussed with your brother? Or maybe he has/had a creative way of coping with his illness?