(Wuthering Heights remembered)
Little rich girl
forbidden passion
wild-hearted orphan boy
the savage moors.
Respectable marriage
dull but wealthy
life inside walls.
Lover
married for revenge
hating his wife.
Surly. Tyrannical.
How did Cathy die?
How do I not
remember?
The story begins and ends
with her ghost,
crying through the window
to be let in.
Unheard
by the man who lost her –
for all his fierce desire.
Alone, sobbing,
begging her wandering spirit,
please come in
come back to him.
(I understand
that longing
for one dead.)
[Revised 18-19 June 2024. Earlier draft posted 2 April 2024.]
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