MoMA

'ONE LEG COCKED HER ARSE SWAYING OUT LEFT SO THE SKIN FOLDS WHERE HER RIBS MEET HER HIP FACE SOAKED IN SHADOW HALF INDIVISIBLE FROM HAIR LIGHTLY SWAYING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. SHADOW SHIFTING LIGHT COMING DOWN ONTO THE CROWN OF HER HEAD, AND FOREHEAD. HAIR FALLING DOWN OVER HER SHOULDER AS IF SPILLED. FOREHEAD. SO THAT HER EYE IS COVERED. THE OTHER EYE JUST BYSECTED, JUST BLINKING, FLASHING WHITE WET EYE, SMEARED SHADOWS SHINING UNDERNEATH, FRINGED DARK, SKIN AT THE LEFT EYES EDGE. SHATTERING INTO A ZILLION CREASES TO MAKE TINY BLACK LINES, RESTORED FOR AN INSTANT HER EYES FLASH CLOSED, LIDS PALEST VEIN BLUE, SO THIN, LIPS JUST TOUCHING SEPARATED BY A PUCE SEAM, NOT SMILING, BUT ALMOST, KNECK, THIN, MAUVE, BONY, CHEST LIFTING AND FALLING AS THE AIR PASSES THROUGH IT. FROM HEAD TO TOE SHE'S HALF CLOAKED IN SHADOW, SO IT'S HARD TO DIVIDE HER FROM THE SHADOW BEHIND, BLUE, GRAY, BROWN, ALL COLOURS ROLLED INTO ONE. BRIGHT COLOURLESS HIGHLIGHT STRIKES HER OTHER SIDE, SILVER ON HER CHEST AND STOMACH. LIGHT CRACKING BETWEEN HER LEGS, WIDENING TO A TRIANGLE, ENDING AT THE FLOOR. FEET APART SUCKED TO THE FLOOR. TOES TURNING OUT JUST SLIGHTLY. SHADOW ARCHING UP THE INSTEP. VEIN SNAKING UP O TOP OF THE FOOT BUSTING THROUGH THE SKIN, DISAPPEARING THEN APPEARING AGAIN AT THE BONY ANKLE, CALF CURLING HAIR STRAGLING OUT ONTO HER SMOKE GRAY THIGH. PINK SKIN BEHIND, DARK PURPLE, RED, BROWN, WHATEVER, SHADOW RUNNING DOWN HER INNER THIGH, TAPERING AS IT GETS TO HER KNEE, THEN BLOOMING OUT ONTO HER CALF, AND RUDDY ANKLE. UNTIL IT MERGES WITH THE POOL OF BLACK ON THE FLOOR. SHE'S LEANING BACK ONTO THE HEEL OF HER FOOT. SO THAT THE WEIGHT RUNS ALONG HER LEG, AND UP HER SPINE, LEAVING THE LEFT SIDE OF HER BODY TO HANG LOOSE. ARM DANGLING SLACK AT HER SIDE; THE AIR DARK BETWEEN HER HAND AND HER THIGH. FINGERS SO BONY AND RUDDY COMPARED TO THE RUDDY WHITE THIGH. HER HIP, FINGERS SPLAYED ON THE WHITE FLESH. EVERYTHING, EVEN THE SHADOW BEHIND BREATHING WITH HER AS SHE STRETCHES AND CONTRACTS STOMACH RISING AND FALLING UNEVENLY, ALMOST INVISIBLY WITH EVERY LITTLE BREATH.'