The sun peeks through a slit, between two walls of cloud. The top wall forms a scattered delta, a series of smaller fragments with sky between them like a checkerboard. The bottom wall is a solid and flat plane that vertically lands like a fence or shrub. It is particularly quiet in the neighborhood. But to see the sun finally and slowly come further between the gap takes an amount of patience. A perfect level of it. One plane, one contrail, sails in the sky delta much like a speedboat leaves its wake. Elsewhere there is a cotton froth waterlogged and left suspended high above.
In a passage of days the day was gray and colorless all over the sky. It is flat and without shape. Pale, stare. Stone walls filling the air. Later, it is blindingly wet. This downpour crashes down upon the earth with a powerful splash from the storm clouds wringing themselves. But as it comes, it brings flashes of light. Great camera, in the sky taking a photo, and the shutter closing with a deep metallic thunderclap. I feel compelled to go. Experience an altered atmosphere. Yet when I do, the sun breaks out in a clearing while rain falls. Sunshowers.
It is a dramatic and theatrical display of the atmosphere how fire and water come down upon the earth. On one side of the sky, bright, holy, and blue as if the clouds had been blasted apart by God's shotgun to fill the gap with light. On the opposite side, a deep slate gray. Featureless, cold, and foreboding with massive vertical stacks of clouds that seem to barrel outward with circular vengeance. And somehow, a rainbow. This rainbow is so strikingly vivid and bright. It is a neon beam in the sky that arcs across it and repeats downward, tessellating chromatic aberrations. It is a powerful thing. It is profoundly psychedelic how the colors radiate across the contrasting flag gray.
So quickly it comes it leaves. I had been convinced already by seeing it to stop and drop everything I was doing and it fills you with a wildly manic and overstimulating energy and you become restless. Fidget. Twitch. Crush. Speed. Scratch. Pinch. Noise. Fractal. Chaos. Explosion.
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