Great Regulars: Now the speaker will have to be content

to "muse" on the "memory" of the island and the pleasurable summer days she has just concluded there.

Then again, as is expected in a well-crafted, traditional villanelle, the speaker's mind returns to the melancholic prompt; this time she repeats, "The ferry is no simple pleasure boat."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Linda Pastan's Leaving the Island

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