Lines that announce a creative liaison between two poets: Toyin Falola, a historian of international repute, a quintessentially prolific writer who incidentally has published a collection of poetry Scoundrels of Deferral prior to this, and Adérónké Adésànyà, an artist and art historian, who hitherto wrote poetry without the intent to publish and by sheer providence is cutting her first teeth in poetry with this outstanding book. The poetic cosmos of Falola engages the poetic universe of Adésànyà to give the literary world a phenomenal book of poetry that promises to generate debate for years to come. The poetic journey of Etches on Fresh Waters straddles spaces and epochs, and ties truth, laughter, joy and sadness, victory and failure, hope and despair to the apron of time. The frailty, docility, fragility and volatility of human life find space in the rapidity of a poetic train. This publication is a welcome feast to lovers of the rich craft of poetry. Words are reinvented and crafted in lucid, zesty, and breathtaking thought-provoking lines. Covering a span of 25 to 50 years in the authors professional range and observations of various societies and peoples, containing over a hundred poems, and divided thematically, the collection seeks to provide moments of wisdom, words of solace, songs of abuse, songs of praise, songs of politics, songs of morality, songs of desire, and songs of labor, while theorizing in a subtle manner, on the value of foresight as opposed to hindsight, hard work in contrast to laziness, friendship instead of hatred, openness as an alternative to close-mindedness, intelligence as opposed to foolishness, and ultimately, on the imperative of love in many shades and textures as opposed to hatred and hypocrisy.