In honour of the 200th anniversary of Emily Bronte’s birth, here is a posting from my found poem sequence Novel Finds taken from Wuthering Heights:
Folly of Offending
We touched on topics
of the laconic kind –
auxiliary verbs,
relaxed pronouns –
and notwithstanding the discourse
would be a subject of interest to me,
his style of humour
was offending
since the consideration of this folly
was repetition.
Charmed
Winds
and bitter
northern
sickness;
bleak
country torture;
the terrible intimation
of the impassable
physiognomy,
and oh,
this dearth
out of doors,
till
a charming introduction
to a
human life!