looking across the bay, listening to the birds, and the

Last updated: 7/31/2022

looking across the bay, listening to the birds, and the place felt, in a way, like home. It felt like h was supposed to be there, and when he stood and brushed the rock dust off his pants and walked back to the boat, some of the day was gone. But the newness filled him, and he did not think of Madison or feel lonely as he rowed back to the main shore, left the boat upside down in the brush found his bike, and got out on the road. He did not think of Madison or his friends there; he though only of the island, the sunfish coming to his toes, the mallards jumping into the sky the way they did, the sun, the birds. And he knew he would come back. He knew it with a kind of basic fundamental knowledge; he would breathe in and out and he would come back to the island. The island most likely represents to Wil. the past a hardship old friends new freedom