Glenn, I am glad to hear it worked for you. After thirty years of teaching The Odyssey, I found myself to be skeptical of the "happily ever after" ending, but also unwilling to buy into Tennyson's gung-ho adventurer. I had originally tried to write this poem eleven years ago, but didn't get very far. Deciding to try it as a variation on a villanelle enabled me to work through some of the feelings I had about long-term separations and the reunions afterwards.
Susan
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