Tell Tales: Selected Works from the Provincetown Poems

By Washashore

The entire world has been transformed due to a pandemic. The scope of sadness and destruction is far-reaching and wide. However, focus the world’s lens. Come closer and see the effects on a much smaller scale.

Tell Tales is a lyrical, moving, and insightful poetry collection written in turbulent times and offered as a companion and comfort. Poet Washashore observes the transformation of his coastal home of Provincetown, Massachusetts—a small tourist town where residents have been greatly affected.

Washashore provides a unique flair, evoking a musical quality to the written word, reminiscent of times old and new. Despite the world’s darkness, he paints beauteous scenes with wit and word in this work that is deep as the ocean. Can you smell the sea?

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663205148

Washashore

Washashore is an acclaimed author, dramatist, and artist. A full time resident of Provincetown, Massachusetts, he makes his home at the water’s edge.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-0515-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6632-0514-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020915997

iUniverse rev. date: 10/07/2020

Offered in revelry and remembrance of the love of my life,

John Vincent Shurr

1962–2000

Lover of literature,

Lover of life,

Far better half.

Spare me not; tell me true, my sweet, how did we do?

Acknowledgments

The original cover art, The Moors, is by highly acclaimed Provincetown, Cape Cod, painter TJ Walton, Tjwaltongallrey.com. TJ, thank you for nailing it!

Sincere thanks to Professor Terry Siegel, a brilliant mind and lifelong fighter for social justice. Your friendship, encouragement, and expertise in technology post-1974, took this work from quill to computer, to printed page.

To the Townies, Washashores, and patrons of Provincetown, my forever home.

And to whomever or whatever from whence cometh words, scribings can never truly convey my gratitude!

And to you, gentle reader, I