... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the deep emotional connection shared between individuals, highlighting a sense of unity amidst uncertainty.
Sharon Olds beautifully encapsulates the experience of profound love and connection between people. The imagery of pouring slowly through a curve suggests a journey filled with intimacy and vulnerability, while the mention of darkness and softness evokes the complexities and comforts found in a deep relationship. The phrase 'we are bound to each other' emphasizes an unwavering commitment and the intertwining of lives that love fosters, no matter the challenges faced.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the deep bond between partners.
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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