The Unspeakably Familiar

[Universalchild]

Thanks, Phaedra. I decided to give the poem its original title back and stop trying to be clever. Double Jeopardy - in legal terms I think it means that you can't be tried for the same offence twice. But the poem is meant to be about a relationship gone stale in which one partner puts the other through the mill repeatedly for past offences. The averted cheek has been struck, I'm trying for a heated resentment.
The poem sprang from an exercise I give myself some times - to try and convert, condense a passage or chapter from a novel into a poem!

Best Wishes, Ray

Ah, okay, that does make sense.

I think I took it too literally, I thought it was about domestic violence. Thanks for the read!