Kaja, Ben2017-04-242017-04-242008-04-11etd-04242008-184110http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77489A collection of poems primarily in free verse that deals with loss, love, nostalgia, memory, nature (both human and wild), and the self. The title is a Fats Waller quote I found as the epigraph in one of my favorite books, The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic. While it is literally impossible to waltz the rumba, since they are two different dances and types of music, I like the idea it provokes for me: it says to me, “let’s do this our own way"? or the old cliché phrase “let’s walk to the beat of a different drummer."? This quote embodies the spirit in which these poems where written.en-USIn Copyrightnostalgialossfree versenaturepoetrydesireThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04242008-184110/