He who has his own wound
cannot speak of it.
Nor is there any geography which
takes cognizance of it.
To know and then to heal
that is the rule.
But discipline is not sufficient
despite our speculations.
And there is no one, not the god
who understood it.
And the fact is that she withdrew it,
the fact is that she owned it.
She possesed her own life, and took it.
Paul Blackburn, 1955
