AURORA AURORA

Good morning, Aurora
Dawn. light comes streaming in.
Over the hills, across the bay,
to the other shore.
Aurora Aurora stands alone,
A peacock in full display.

Transparent metallic oxide colors
Please the naked eye.
Regal gold, azure cobalt blue,
ferric reds aflame, borders of cupric green
Changing slowly; Helios moves
across the sky.

Now, titanium white and yellows,
And bismuth greens.
Evanescent spectra,
Infra red to ultra violet
Dawn to Dusk…

Thin-film coatings
Thin as gossamers,
resting on butterfly wings
Refract waves of sunlight
to burst in dazzling glory,
Unseen, constant change

Benbow Bullock, Sculptor
Vallejo, California
November, 2006