First published in Every Day Poets, May 2013. It was edited down from maybe three times its length.

People still tell me that they like this one.

“Delaware Sheets”

Sharon lies,

a sylph amid the sheets
in our room in the hills,
drawn up around her –
waves of fabric.
Her warmth is the same
as that of green hills:
gentle, blessed by the sun,
fertile with promise.
Her dark eyes
are as thickets.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2013