PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Sharon Olds
- Born in San Francisco
- Graduated from Standford University in 1964
- Published her first book of poetry, Satan Says
- Her poetry is often intensely personal
- Teaches creative writing at New York University
How do they do it?, the ones who make love with out love?
Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters
Over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other's bodies, faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away
How do they come to the come to the come to the god come to the still waters, and not love
The one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin?
These are true religious, the purists, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of god.
They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners, they know when they are alone, with the surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their overall cardiovascular health - just factors;
Like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against is own best time.
