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.