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# Sky
- URL: https://poetry101.love/sky/
- Published: 2023-07-22T22:35:11.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-22T22:35:11.000Z
- Description: by Maggie Smith
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Maggie Smith, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

Why is the sky so tall and over everything?

What you draw as a blue stripe high above  
a green stripe, white-interrupted, the real sky  
starts at the tip of each blade of grass and goes  
up, up, as far as you can see. Our house stops  
at the roof, at the glitter-black overlap of shingles  
where the sky presses down, bearing the weight  
of space, dark and sparkling, on its back.  
Think of sky not as blue, not as over,  
but as the invisible surround, a soft suit  
you wear close to the skin. When you walk,  
the soles of your feet take turns on the ground,  
but the rest of you is in the sky, enveloped in sky.  
As you move through it, you make a tunnel  
in the precise size and shape of your body.

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Smith, Maggie. [Good Bones](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Good%5FBones/DtNsEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2017.