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Harriet, at six, asked,
"Where do rainbows come from?"
At last a question I can answer!
I can't tell her how or why
the world came into being
(though I do have a few thoughts about the why).
Or even why the sky is blue.
(I've never understood the science of that!)
But a rainbow?
I start by reminding her
that a prism once hung in her window.
She remembered.
A prism, I said,
breaks light into its constituent colours.
And raindrops,
when lit by the sun,
act as prisms, each one singly,
and they refract the colours of light.
Harriet was completely, absolutely -- unimpressed.
So okay, I'm not a science teacher.
Maybe I should have gone with leprechauns
and the pot of gold.
Speaking of which,
is there gold at both ends, or only at one?
If the latter, which one?
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