“Delaware Sheets”
By Eric R. Nolan
Sharon lies,
a sylph amid the sheets
in our room in the hills,
drawn up around her --
are 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.
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Eric Robert Nolan’s writing has appeared throughout 46 print and online publications in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Germany, Australia and India. These include Newsday (America’s 10th largest newspaper), The Roanoke Times, The Free Lance-Star, The Daily Progress, The Galway Review, Every Day Fiction and Quail Bell Magazine.
Eric’s work was also selected for ten anthologies, two chapbooks and six mini-books between 2013 and 2021. He is a past editor for The Bees Are Dead and was a nominee for the Sundress Publications 2018 Best of the Net Anthology. His debut novel was The Dogs Don’t Bark in Brooklyn Any More, published in 2013 by Dagda Publishing in the United Kingdom.