rainbow effect

kaja rae lucas

 

I.

in the last scene of the suicide

someone shines a light through

two fastened prisms

shining out on the other side

like rainbows.  

II.

didn’t god send a rainbow after the flood?

wasn’t the road to valhalla paved with it?

didn’t sylvia and marsha start riots for it?

or is it just an effect?

 

III.

 

the rose on the tips of the rainbow was

re-purposed for a color of violence– now, our flags

of pride appear with violence, a stripe,

where we are aware of how violence shaped us.

IV.

your girlfriend put on rainbow eyeliner for pride

somewhere in Istanbul. she came home with

a rubber bullet in her leg and the rainbow

eyeliner running down her face;

don’t you know we’re not wanted here?

V.

the prisms seem to break the light apart

showing the way white light holds all of these colors

but white is not brown and we are not mentioned.

blackness is not a part of your rainbow.