COTTON & WOOL



You are only thick sweater from me.
Cable knit nipples sensitive
tender rough texture        erect.
Already your hands hang loose
at the end of arms long
    cupped at cuff.

Curved fingers wait
face in toward thigh
only thin denim between.
A button, a zipper, a pull
    down your knees just
blue cotton and white wool away.



- Maryann Hazen-Stearns