“Fire Rainbows”

“Looking up into the sky, they were amazed to see the most remarkably strange (for they weren’t arcs) but beautiful rainbows. Four of them, arranged in a tier and feather-shaped, stretched out like bird wings at a forty-five-degree angle into the heavens. Softened green, yellow, orange and red hues were clearly visible. These polychrome downy wands looked to be normal rainbows that had been turned to gas and blown into completely unusual shapes. Then the fire rainbows transformed themselves from feathery wings into far-flung ropes of color. It seemed as if some huge, invisible cowboy were performing tricks with several gigantic, luminescent ropes. A yellow line flashed high in the firmament. Then a peach-colored one, connected to the yellow at its base, like the other stroke of a side-turned V, raced earthward like an exploded firework. Below these, the sky ropes formed a wishbone shape whose sections ranged from red to orange to yellow to indigo to blue. In the lowest part of the sky, all the colors disappeared, and the ropes made wavy and whipping streaks of pure white.”