The odds of my reacting positively to works of art involving both the words 'poetry' and 'solstice' are usually extremely low. This is the exception. April 28, 2008 The odds of my reacting positively to works of art involving both the words ‘poetry’ and ‘solstice’ are usually extremely low. This is the exception. Sculpture with carefully placed perferations reveals different stanzas of a poem based on the position of the sun.