Jacob

She

    would return

from work

    in the evening

and be met by his hostility, hatred and pain

at first

this presented itself almost

exclusively

    to sexual matters

then she realized it

    was an attempt

to limit

    her work:  indeed her progress

it was like a handcuff

    but she felt it tighten

her wrists bled

    after she escaped him:

she would never say

    his name out loud

if she saw his handwriting

on a letter

    she never opened it:

the only reference

    to the era of her marriage

she allowed into her life

    was a song:

and only because it referred to separation.