Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Two Rainbows

 There's been a lot of frost recently, it is January after all. But seeing two rainbows on either end of the bay the other day brought an expected touch of frost.


Two Rainbows


Two rainbows, miles apart, glimmered

above the steel-coloured bay. I stood

watching them, straight sided stubs just,

equal in size but gauzy, one as faint as the other, 

both on the point of disappearing.


I waited for that moment, but, instead, they

grew by degrees, spectral pillars, curved

and high in the graphite heavens converged;

a Romanesque arch soaring, spanning

the length of Donegal Bay, magnificent;


in that moment a difference was erased.


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