Sunlight through the slanted shutters
Lay stripes across her breasts,
Bars across the sheets,
Precise angular lines of shadow
When they leave the window,
But somewhere between
There and her body
The stripes become fluid
As the light itself,
Snuggling her smooth skin
As a see-through slip,
Sliding around her ribs
Like lotion from the hands of her lover.
And he beside her, sleeping,
Head and chest laying in darkness
While his lower half is hatch-marked
By the pattern of umbra,
Caressing his midriff, hips and thighs
As her arm falls across him.
Both sleepers are cut by the same shade,
Both mended by the same rays.
Lillian Susan Thomas
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-afterglow-a-couple-sleeps/
