While waiting for the webinar, i decided to browse on some old files. Funny, i found myself smiling on this extremely naughty yet one of the sexiest poems i have read.
The speaker "innocently" describes the shirt, but as we go through reading, we would notice the details she is giving us. How the shirt evokes the sensuality of an observing person, at first the shirt touches the man's neck, smoothens into his back, and reaches even down into his pants. The smoothness of the shirt suggests the smoothness and even the virile strength of the one who wears the shirt, and yes as we continue reading, we would that there is envy on the speaker's side, a wishful thinking saying if only she were a shirt then, like the man's shirt she too would be a a lucky shirt? :-) Please read the poem below and I hope you enjoy it as i did:-)
The Shirt
By Jane Kenyon
The shirt touches his neck
and smooths over his back.
It slides down his sides.
It even goes down below his belt—
down into his pants.
Lucky shirt.
