from pillar to polecat, pacing

You have heard of polecats? (They're actually ferrets--or the word can also be used to refer to skunks.) Well this is a postcat:



From pole to post --like pillar to post--driven from pillar to post--it's like pacing, pacing back and forth . . . and where better to pace than a widow's walk, with its view out to the harbor and the sea. Is that a ship's mast appearing over the horizon? Has the sea returned your beloved to you? A hurricane wind will push anchored ships ashore, and a really, really...