prismed

A traffic jam – all spectral yellow automotive lights prismed through rain-streaked windows.

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

The icebergs prismed the light and the weary men shielded their eyes from the painful glory of sunlight shimmering on snow, ice, and water.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

A traffic jam – all spectral yellow automotive lights prismed through rain-streaked windows.

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

A traffic jam – all spectral yellow automotive lights prismed through rain-streaked windows.

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

As if in honour of Lieutenant Gore, the single circle of the ice-occluded sun had been joined by three more suns — sun dogs floating above and to either side of the south-hanging true sun — all connected by a halo-band of rainbow-prismed light.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

A traffic jam – all spectral yellow automotive lights prismed through rain-streaked windows.

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

The dust of his passing still hung in the sunlight, muffling the rainbows cast by the prismed glass of the window onto the white cloths covering the dressing-table.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

The dust of his passing still hung in the sunlight, muffling the rainbows cast by the prismed glass of the window onto the white cloths covering the dressing-table.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

The sea of crimson lacquer, with its floating moons of luminous colour — this bow of prismed stone leaping to the weird isle crowned by the anomalous, aureate excrescence — the half human batrachians-the elfland through which we had passed, with all its hidden wonders and terrors — I felt the foundations of my cherished knowledge shaking.

The Moon Pool 2004

One might go far afield and gather less forceful indictments — the horrific spider spinning his trap for the unthinking fly; the lovely Drosera (Sundew) using its crimson calyx for a smothering-pit in which to seal and devour the victim of its beauty; the rainbow-colored jellyfish that spreads its prismed tentacles like streamers of great beauty, only to sting and torture all that falls within their radiant folds.

The Financier 2004