Sharon Darrow

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Sharon Darrow

Hello!

Come on in and have a look at my books and find out a bit about me. Soon I'll add a Story page where I'll talk about how these books came to be.

I'll also add a few poems and thoughts about writing and teaching writing from time to time. I like doing school visits and retreats for writers so I'll add some information about that, too.

I hope you'll enjoy. Email me and let me know what you think: SharonDarrow@hotmail.com.

--Sharon

from TRASH:

Garbage

I hate
how

we breathe it
wear it
stain our hands with it
smell of it

Our boots & overalls
Aunt Lannie's long dresses
streaked with it

(her religion won't let her wear pants)

Uncle Daddy drives the pickup
past a row of cans,downwind

always downwind

Boy & me knock off the lids
lift the cans up to Aunt Lannie
standing on the heap
in wading boots, bandanna
over her nose

She empties them into the trailer
chucks them at my brother
& me & we slam

lids back on
Rowed up neat
empty they sit

Sour air hangs in the road
after we drive on

TRASH, Candlewick, 2006

The Painters of Lexieville, Candlewick, 2003

Through the Tempests, Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein, 2003

Old Thunder and Miss Raney, D-K Ink, Dorling-Kindersley, 2000

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