Eternal

[billy]

which goes to the point that sometimes ambiguity adds to the poem by allowing the reader their own vision of what transpires.

Thanks billy, that's a really good reading.  I don't want to close to much of it off -- I don't mind if people read it as them still being married, as them never having been married but she was married to someone else and it made him mad with jealousy, or if they were divorced and he couldn't handle the idea that she might some day be with someone else.  I also don't mind if people read the knock at the door as her, coming home battered -- or if it's the police telling gran that Jess has been murdered.  Any outcome is possible in a situation like this, but it's never a good one for the woman and/or children I'm afraid.