#100sciencepoems 14: Road Rainbows

Oil spilled on the wet road

Should be dark, slick and shiny

Instead it makes spectrum circles

A dirty kind of beauty.

Falling rain splits the colour in light

Throws it pure across the sky

And we speak of bridges to the gods

Of fairy treasure

But oil traps both the light and the fallen rain beneath it.

And holds the magic.

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