The sun was out today by 8 a.m.
The sky beyond the window’s spanking blue.
The weather is inviting me and them
to step outside, inflate our lungs, and do
a bit of normal fall activity.
We’ve spent our time indoors for 20 days
amid the medical telemetry,
in waiting rooms and instrument-filled bays.

Today the stricken patient graduates
to hospitality with less alarm.
Improving hourly, he demonstrates
recovery from catastrophic harm.
And though his course will run for months ahead,
we’re dancing joy today that no one’s dead.