Ira Wood | The Sun Magazine

Ira Wood

Ira Wood lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and is the author of several plays, including “The Last White Class,” co-written with his wife, Marge Piercy.

— From June 1985
Fiction

Organic Gardening

You have watched your love kneeling, stretching, tugging weeds. Her muscles slide beneath her skin. She sweats where your tongue wants to be. And the good air fills you, and your body thrums from the inside out. You are an animal, naked in the grass, in the dirt. You are hot and you want.

June 1985
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