Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds

Author:Sharon Olds [Olds, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-307-95991-1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

To Our Miscarried One, Age Thirty Now

Though I never saw you, only your clouds,

I was afraid of you, of how you differed

from what we had wanted you to be. And it’s as if

you waited, then, where such waiting is done,

for when I would look beside me—and here

you are, in the world of forms, where my wifehood

is now, and every action with him,

as if a thousand years from now

you and I are in some antechamber

where the difference between us is of little matter,

you with perhaps not much of a head yet,

dear garden one, you among the shovels

and spades and wafts of beekeeper’s shroud

and sky-blue kidskin gloves.

That he left me is not much, compared

to your leaving the earth—your shifting places

on it, and shifting shapes—you threw off your

working clothes of arms and legs,

and moved house, from uterus

to toilet bowl and jointed stem

and sewer out to float the rivers and

bays in painless pieces. And yet

the idea of you has come back to where

I could see you today as a small, impromptu

god of the partial. When I leave for good,

would you hold me in your blue mitt

for the departure hence. I never thought

to see you again, I never thought to seek you.

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