The Beach and Other Poems
by Roger Walke

• “Roger Walke embraces life as a lover who is repeatedly rebuffed yet keeps coming back for more...He feels intense what it is to be human, yet is never sure he knows himself....He abhors cant in all its many shapes, sparing neither his church nor his society in his sometimes devastating wit.” --Michael Manheim

• Excerpt  “The Beach,” page 1:
  Time after time —
  the waves at the wind’s behest
  and the tide at the moon’s
  and I lie on the smooth small stones
  awaiting the flooding tide and the last tsunami.

• Excerpt  “Boone,” page 53:
  I too would live beyond all care,
  disdainful also of my nearer neighbors’ scorn,
  unmindful of their increased drowning sounds,
  but I — no, but — oh — to be then
  a free leaf gently settled on the earth,
  green forever in an ever greening air.

• ISBN 978-0-936015-77-4
  • viii + 56 pages, 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches, paperbound
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