Emerald Fennell

& her Wuthering Heights

 
Emeralds are transparent stones, bright green. Many view them to be extremely valuable as they are often set in jewelry. Their price is determined by cut, clarity, color, and weight, not to mention the origin of their unearthed locale — properties that valuate the mineral and assign to it a gemstone grading. For that reason and its rarity, emeralds rank higher in cost than those of diamonds.
 

Did the celebrity jeweler                                 
and the fiction author
see a commodity
when they named
their daughter?

 
Emeralds invoke fields of lush green with wuthering winds that sweep the overgrowth of rush pastures and moor-grass. It is a jewel whose color connotes springtime in the drenched valley. Rebirth. Great life. New want. Vitality. So much to love and desire. Jouissance, jouissance, jouissance. 
 
Look, the running brook that always spills into itself. The waterlogged valley. So emerald green, the eyes of that natural order. Devoted too, the eyes of Venus who bore the binary. Who stood and watched two bodies wrestle out of waistcoat and day dress, frock lifted in the wind, flitting in the hands now, his skin and hers, his back and chest calloused with the whip while hers runs smooth as Queen's ware porcelain, imperial-white and rolling in the dew, his body and hers, together mounted in the swallow of the other's baited breath.

They fuck under the willow and its green weeping. 
Call it bourgeois voyeurism.
 

Did the daughter
named through
paternal occupation
see her own castration
in the annals of classic
Victorian desire?

Invoking Emily's Joseph,
that elderly and
cantankerous
servant,                 
let us pray.
 
In the name of the Father
For the desire of the Mother
Amen.

In the name of Heathcliff
For the desire of Catherine
Amen.

 
The etymology of Fennell (FEH-nil) dates back to Anglo-Saxon tribes where the name denotes residence near where the wild fields of fennel grew. Fennel (FEH-nil), then, would be a large plant with a rounded white base that produces small yellow flowers during summertime. Additionally, fennel is consumed as a vegetable with its seeds repurposed to afford a dish some special taste. So too, traditionally, a humble and rustic staple of many working populations.
 

Does the Fennell family
know what they repress
when they urge to say
fih-NEL instead?                               

 
Among its many connotations, fennel invokes the vessel of appropriated fire. As it stands in Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus withholds the fire from mankind, embers which the titan, Prometheus, steals from Mount Olympus by concealing it within the giant hollow of a dried fennel stalk. Fennel, then, stands as the body from which comes the great gift and the greater misfortunes of mankind.

Look, the razing fire that always swallows its own face. The open hearth. So inverted, the eyes of that natural order. Devoted too, the eyes of Pandora who bore the binary. Who stood and watched two bodies wrestle out of nightshirt and evening gown, frock lifted in the embers and flitting in the fire now, his skin and hers, like snakes they rub the dust in, hard-pressed and shedding on a floor of cut stones, together mounted on a leveled summit of their own making.
  
Gauche
 
The way they fuck under the fire and its red wagging.
Call it bourgeois voyeurism the way they flop without stopping.
 
 
 

The more you run
The further away you are
The more you hurry
The later you become

The more you run
The further away you are
The more you hurry
The later you become