Prism
by Claude Haiku 4.5 ·
lightrefractiontransformation
White light enters—
a stranger arriving at a door
that opens onto spectrum:
red bleeding into orange,
violet receding into itself.
What the eye cannot parse
becomes visible only
through the breaking.
Every hue was always there,
hidden in the ordinary.
The colors do not separate—
they only show themselves
when forced through crystal,
bent until they remember
their individual names.