Water, Water Gideon Sterer but she's trying to please

but she's trying to please him

even though she can't imagine how she'll ever make a living

When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread

Deep beneath the desert

making him their main suspect

Water, Water Gideon Sterer but she's trying to pleaseIn this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it begins in clarity but ends with a whiff of mystery. In Water, Water, Collins combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight. Common and uncommon events are captured here with equal fascination, be it a cat leaning to drink from a swimming pool, a nurse calling