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Not Just an Optical Illusion

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 8, 2021| 7 Comments »

Just because we cannot touch a rainbow
doesn’t mean it does not exist.
And just because a rainbow is predictable—
sunlight bent in a water drop
at an angle of forty-two degrees
and separated into all its wavelengths—
doesn’t mean it is not a miracle.
 
How many times have I been unable to touch you,
and yet I am certain of love.
And hasn’t a downpour taught us
to see all our own colors,
shown us how to bend to the world
in ways startling and new.
 
And isn’t it strange, how love
keeps shifting, changing place,
moves even as we move,
all the while shining, astonishing us
with what a little light in a storm can do.
 

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One Golden Moment

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »

walking toward the rainbow—

shocked to arrive

in my own life

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There Shouldn’t Be Any More Poems About Rainbows, But

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

 

 

double rainbow to the east—

I stand in the rain and watch

as its colors deepen—

something small inside me

grows brighter, bright enough

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Making the Unseen Seen

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2017| 1 Comment »

 

 

 

Come quick, said the math teacher,

grabbing me and my daughter by the hand

and rushing us past the school’s edifice

where he pointed east at rainbow

made of ice crystals hung in the air—

an ice rainbow! he exclaimed—

and we applauded with our eyes

until all three of us ran back into the shadows

to pull others to street corner,

sharing in the thrill that we did not

arrive too early, too late,

our breath coming out in misty curls,

silent, visible prayers.

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