She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
Sharon OldsThere is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.
Sharon OldsThe amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
Sharon Olds