Adam Fieled (Logan Square, Philadelphia, USA): "Facade"

I’m that façade
              etched in brick
you brought to bear on one level

opened
          able to close
connecting landscape to sky

it’s fine
             it’s blue
a public secret for the greater good

dark lions
          freeze
near portals limned with prey

sun-backed
              moon-streaked
it all adds up and it’s enough

© Adam Fieled 2005

first published in Great Works