What can YOU say in six sentences? In the world on the flipside
of ours, children learn the colors of the spectrum according to
their rainbows: blough, equatorine, vielot, horange, reade,
appaltine, yhello. Rainbows are not only visual phenomena in
this world, but have an audible aspect as well, so that when
their arching array burgeons in the post-stormy skies, a gentle
cooing can be heard all across the landscape. It is a yearning
sound, full of the melancholy of one who is incomplete, only
halfway formed. Children sing nursery rhymes about her and her
lost love, who goes by another name. Folks take pictures that
never quite capture the feeling of standing beneath the brief
dazzling specter. She reaches for a solitary apex while at the
same time she is bound to the earth, arms reaching down for the
one who lies forever just out of reach, on the other side of the
horizon.