A prejudice is an addiction, and it’s …
Sharon Olds
All day they lay in the sun, on the snowbank, …
As we sat at the feet of the string quartet, …
Another Grand Jury …
When she comes back, from college, I will see …
Nothing promised between us is nothing …
The doctor said to my father, “You asked me …
Even if I still had the clothes I wore, …
I could not tell I had jumped off that bus, …
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, …
I am on the plane, in the air, before I …
I did not deserve to be beaten, …
Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider, …
The parents whose boy went off to school …
As the guests arrive at our son’s party …
I am locked in a little cedar box …
Spoon of O, spoon of nothing, …
It was night, it had rained, there were pieces of cars and …
But I love the I, steel I-beam …
When we talk about when to tell the kids, …
As our daughter approaches graduation and …
1. brett returns my mother to the wilderness …
I love the conversations we have …
In the back of the charm-box, in a sack, the baby …
Who did the cord belong to? If I had been …
When I ran through the glass tunnels of the airport, through …
what about those nosegays?! If you were to return …
At dusk, on those evenings she does not go out, …