Early morning the
rainbow
spread its' arch,
bridgelike and engineered with perfect hues of light,
over the fire ravaged California town...
and the first risers looked up, clutching their coffee cups in ritual to the luminous curve,
contemplating meaning in the wide color of prism,
as the rainbow faded,
content only with itself.
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