The lovers arrive faces flushed
from the cold
The table is set
with plenty of deep-fried food and chocolate and
heart-smart salads on the side.
Cathy and Heathcliff both are there.
Having realized it is the 21st century,
they have completed anger management,
renounced co-dependency, and now
pour their passion into healthy things
like career and charitable causes
and eating salads – practicing forgiveness.
They do full-body workouts too, and wonder why
they are together. Across the room
Heloise has abandoned her habit;
Abelard reclaimed his member.
They dance every moon dance each
grateful, breathing
the other in
barely moving.
Paradise enough.
~Hannah Rush
Illustration by Reza Sepahdari
The Winstanley Gazette 
❤️
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