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***BIO*** Allen Smith: My work has been published in Charlotte Poetry Review, Poetry Midwest, remark, Iodine Poetry Journal and Zygote in My Coffee, among other publications.  I live in Alexandria, Va., and enjoy ice skating and walking my shiba inu.
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Outsider Art
by Allen Smith
The sky is an underrated artist
with its endless exhibits for all for free
swimming with pollen,
tensing branches and swishing leaves,
using even pollution as a medium
in its fishbone geography
and constant puzzling over clouds „Ÿ
garish at dusk,
purple and black from a storm's bruising to come,
gauzed with starlight neither pointillist nor abstract,
their silent blooming any season,
not like the waft of a honeysuckled breeze
or mosquito's buzzing in a nose or ear:
big bang enough.
July 2005
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