Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Self Portrait in the Nude’ by Allison Funk with Juta Jazz
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Self Portrait in the Nude’ by Allison Funk. Funk is the author of five books of poems: Wonder Rooms (Parlor Press, 2015); The Tumbling Box (C&R Press, 2009); The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995), selected by Sonia Sanchez as the winner of the 1994 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize; and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).
I have matched mobile art work entitled ‘waha_2’ by @jutajazz1 – Juta Jazz with this poem.
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‘Self Portrait in the Nude’ ©Allison Funk
To understand what it would be like
to remove my clothes
as painters do in portraits of themselves
I imagine I’m the woman
who knows her body
no longer belongs to the young artist
who painted herself before she had children,
before her topography was changed
by forces erosive as water and wind,
and yet she goes on painting it,
the girdle of her earth that is now an etched terrain
crossed with silver rivulets.
And hills, I want to say to her.
Valleys. Then hummocks,
hot springs, hoodoo. What is art about
if not depression? Uplift? Depression
again? At which she straightens
the flesh of her shoulders and neck
to face me before I disappear
into landscape,
my favorite state of undress.
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