I Am Followed by Strange Ghosts | Sarah Manguso

They look at me lovingly and rattle their chains a little. When I awaken they are already standing around the bed, looking at me as if ready to speak, but they never speak.

Whose memories are these?

 

 

 

After My Great-Grandmother Frances Got a Cochlear Implant, She Raised Her Voice a Little When She Asked My Mother, "What’s That Noise?"

Birds.

 

Sarah Manguso is the author of four books, most recently the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (FSG, 2008), forthcoming in paperback. A 2008 Rome Prize fellow, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.