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“I am glad not to have lost him entirely, but to see him moved at the whim of the sky, like a man in the wind”

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Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds is a renowned American contemporary poet, born on November 19, 1942. Her poetry is known for its straightforward and candid style, often exploring themes of love, family, and death through personal experiences. more

“And then there is the spring park, damp as if freshly peeled, sweet greenhouse, green cemetery with no dead in it—except, in some shaded woods, under some years of leaves and rotted cones, the body of a warbler like a whole note fallen from the sky—my old love for him, like a songbird's rib cage picked clean.”

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“A week later, I said to a friend: I don't think I could ever write about it. Maybe in a year I could write something. There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

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“and I could tell her the best of my poor, partial love, I could sing her out, with it, I saw the luck and the luxury of that hour.”

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“If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.”

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