Eric Robert Nolan- Two Poems

Spring and Summer

Spring is

An exercise in boldness.

The first faint green

Leaves peek like tentative children

Along low and skeletal limbs.  Then –

They multiply and clutter up

The branches in bright verdant armies

Chasing away winter in favor

Of summer’s emerald empire.

Lust

Her stomach’s skin –

Smooth and flat and warm and even –

Is as a calm sea

And yet my own flesh

Surges into stormy oceans at its touch.