title: Sexy Thoughts and Delicious Nibbles: (Erotic Poetry for Lovers)
author:  The Naked Nurse 
description: The Naked Nurse (1972- ) born in Germany on an Army base to wonderful parents that brought her to the Southern United States to grow up near the banks of the Mississippi River. Her creative roots began to grow as she played along the water's edge looking for Huckleberry Finn. She filled journals and notebooks with poems and short stories for as long as she could pen her name. It wasn't until after marriage that she began to tease with her brand of erotica and sexuality. She aspires to leave an erotic kiss in your world through her works.
zlib_text: **The Man I Married**
  
   **Elena Wilkes**
  
  ![](Images/image00182.jpeg)
  
  _To Ian_
  
   _And to Amy, Susie-Sue, and Karen_
  
   **Prologue**
  
   _Blood has a smell._
  
  I look around me. I’m sitting on a bench.
  
  It comes again.
  
   _It’s visceral, like meat._
  
  I gaze down at my hands. I don’t recognise them; they lie upturned and curled
  in my scarlet-stained lap. Every crease is dark with what looks like rust. My
  palms open like flowers and I feel the skin stretch and tighten. A cold breeze
  skims the wet patches on my dress. The wool sticks unpleasantly to my skin and
  a chill slides down my spine.
  
  I close my eyes.
  
  Behind the lids the dying winter sunlight zigzags in orange and purple
  flashes. Somewhere beyond the bushes I can hear the girls, giggling. I squint;
  I can’t see them now, but I know they’re there.
  
  ‘You can’t hide in here forever you know!’
  
  There’s a woman’s voice. She’s getting closer.
  
  ‘I think it’s time we should be going though, don’t you? Come on!’
  
  I squint. The viburnum bush trem