Her stomach’s skin

is smooth and flat and warm and even,

and as a calm sea.

Yet my own flesh

surges into stormy oceans at its touch.

— (c) Eric Robert Nolan 2013

— originally published by Dead Snakes, July 13, 2013

Photo credit: “S. Martinho Porto October 2014-12a” by Alvesgaspar – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.