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I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother wi...

Sharon Olds

I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother wi...

Tags: parents, poetry

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Sharon Olds

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Tags: writing

About Author
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

A family is a mystery.

Sharon Olds

A family is a mystery.

Tags: family

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

Sharon Olds

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

Tags: sex

The Knowing Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise- comaed and woken, we lie a long time looking at each other.I do not know what he sees, but I see eyes of surpassing tenderness and calm, a calm li...

Sharon Olds

The Knowing Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise- comaed and woken, we lie a long time looking at each other.I do not know what he sees, but I see eyes of surpassing tenderness and calm, a calm li...

Tags: lovers, making love, sensuality

The RelicsI slipped them into my friend’s palm — the tiny crucifix, and dove,from off my mother’s pendant watch — and I asked her to walk them up through the brushtoward timberline, and find a placeto...

Sharon Olds

The RelicsI slipped them into my friend’s palm — the tiny crucifix, and dove,from off my mother’s pendant watch — and I asked her to walk them up through the brushtoward timberline, and find a placeto...