Extract from Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
from XVIII SHE
lungs don't explode they collapse without oxygen I have it from Virginia Woolf
who once spoke to me at a party of course
about drowning of which she had no idea yet - have I told you this story before?
I remember the sky behind her was purple she
came towards me saying Why are you alone in this huge blank garden
like a piece of electircity? Electricity
Maybe she said cakes and tea true we were drinking gin it was long past
teatime but she was a highly original woman