The Smoke Artist

The debate continues over
Whether this was a visual,
Linguistic, or narrative art,

But about what made it an art
Of any kind, few disagreed.
The artist spun figures in smoke,

Directly of the smoke itself,
Without any waving of hands.
The curtain was the theater,

The scrim, the cosmic microwave
Background, in which subtle shadows
Suggested here was dark matter,

Here, birefringence reflecting
Forces still more mysterious.