Exposed: A Poem

I was naked and did not know
until I knew. Now I wonder
if I were like Eve--naked only
before God, who knew but
did not care, and my husband,
who (naked himself) knew
no more than I did, or didn't--
or if I were like the emperor
in the Hans Christian Andersen
fairy tale. Did everyone know
what I didn't? All the townsfolk?
The smallest, even, of children?