By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker compares sickness with the first opening of the sky and describes an environmental disaster, four suns and crossing a line while sitting still.
The speaker connects illness, stillness and an adventure whose chances exceed a bad idea. The strange images do not establish a medical condition or a literal event involving four suns.
'Sick' says 'Do not think my sickness / is not how I felt / When first I saw the sky / open up', calls 'My deaster' 'enviormental', sees 'Four suns across / a single place', and ends with 'the loss of a vision / That is based on fact'.
The poem frames illness as a kind of vision; deaster and enviormental are kept as typed.