Rainbow

You blazed,
you shone,
brilliant colors banded across the sky south to north
redorangeyellowgreenblueindigoviolet,
vast, glorious, rose-glow below.

Bright sun, a boom of thunder, then torrents
drenching anyone caught unaware.

But oh, look west, and stand mouth agape,
a turkey prepared to drown,
if that’s what it takes to live this moment.

60 seconds, no more (no less!),
the vision disappears, the impression lasts,
the now-grey day anything but dull.