SOLSTICE
He walked out
of the sickly silence
past the white coats
and beeping machines
and said maybe
the sun was out anyway
church bells in the distance
it wasn’t raining but
he felt like it just had,
his whole body
sticky and damp like
he was in the middle
of a big sneeze
a big joke
he said
maybe Heaven is
on the sun
maybe that’s why
it hurts so much
to see someone go there
of the sickly silence
past the white coats
and beeping machines
and said maybe
the sun was out anyway
church bells in the distance
it wasn’t raining but
he felt like it just had,
his whole body
sticky and damp like
he was in the middle
of a big sneeze
a big joke
he said
maybe Heaven is
on the sun
maybe that’s why
it hurts so much
to see someone go there