Author: Sharon Olds

I have heard about the civilized, The marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But you and I are […]

To say that she came into me, From another world, is not true. Nothing comes into the universe And nothing […]

When I got to his marker, I sat on it, Like sitting on the edge of someone’s bed And I […]

After we flew across the country we Got in bed, laid our bodies Delicately together, like maps laid Face to […]

Then dirt scared me, because of the dirt He had put on her face. And her training bra Scared me-the […]