Mary Harju/Adam Fieled (North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA): Ekphrasis: The Fall

I look at a bridge through the window.
I am standing, naked, while you paint.

I feel that every moment is new, nude.
I am in my body as it actually is, I am

in time as it moves forward, from in
side my body, responsive to drafts

coming through the window, mirrors
that show me what I know too well

to know, what I have lived through
and with, what I have seen but not

been Other to. Sunlight glistens—
we fall upwards, without question.

© 2008 Mary Evelyn Harju/Adam Fieled