“The good thing” by Rose Auslander (Poetry ’15)

The good thing

As I head past sixty-six, I practice saying hello goodbye. The good thing is, it doesn’t take long if you don’t think about it & who has time. The good thing is when you say it, the sun looks like the moon floating silver behind the clouds & the moon never sets, gliding slowly all day long for the next sixty-six years & hey, maybe we’ll be happy.