Count the Waves Poems Author:Sandra Beasley In this intense, illuminating collection of poems, Sandra Beasley examines how intimacy is lost and gained during our travels.In Count the Waves, Sandra Beasley turns her eclectic imagination and fearless voice to the heart?s pursuits. A man and a woman sit at the same dinner table, an ocean of worry separating them. An iceberg sets out to dance... more ». A sword swallower ponders his dating prospects.From ?Ukulele?:
The vessel is simple, a rowboat among yachts.
No one hides a Tommy gun in its case.
No bluesman runs over his uke in a whiskey rage.
. . .
If you have a cigar box, it?ll do. If you have fishing line,
it?ll sing. If there is to be one instrument of love?
not love vanished or imagined, but love?it?s this one.
Fit a melody in the crook of your arm, and strum.« less