“I live by impulse, by emotion, by white heat”

–Anais Nin, “Henry and June, A Tunnel of Love

impulse would not wait

to feel the white intensity;

with no emotion to attach,

she’d coldly leap away,

unfinished, unresolved.

no tidy ends in escape,

just bloodied stumps

where our hands were

torn away through neglect,

and unrequited regret.

(August 19, 2018)