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Born in November 19, 1942 / United States / English

Poems by Sharon Olds

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First Thanksgiving

... I will smell her hair! She will sleep in this apartment, ...

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Still Life in Landscape

... It was night, it had rained, there were pieces of cars and ...

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My Son the Man

... It seems no time since I would help him to put on his sleeper, ...

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Chamber Thicket

... and then toward this place, like a wandering dreaming  ...

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I Could Not Tell

... to one knee on the street, scraped it, twisted it,  ...

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My Father's Diary

... Inside, the stacked, shy wealth of his print&mdash ...

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I Go Back to May 1937

... they are about to graduate, they are about to get married,  ...

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The Flurry

... Tonight, to breathe its Magellanic field is less ...

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Toth Farry

... on my grandmother's what-not in a gravure on my mother's  ...

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Sex Without Love

... They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, ...

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The End

... on the hill, covered them with blankets that soaked ...

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The Borders

... but the barrier of my skin failed, the barrier of my ...

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One Year

... ant onto the stone, leaving it, and not coming back ...

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A Week Later

... and hours. We had signed the papers and come down to the ...

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Topography

... nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all ...