RONIN lineup

We have the final line up of poems for the book RONIN IN THE TEMPLE OF APHRODITE!

61 monsters of the poetic arts, 61 sobs of pain and shouts of defiance.

Yay! Whee! Yippee-ki-yay...hold it, I'm not from Jersey.

Here they are:

GLASS SAMURAI
LOVE IS AN HOWLING BEAST
I AM
CARTOUCHE
ASHES AND AUGHT
BRAGI TO FREYA, ON HIS DEATHBED
SONNET: WAITING FOR THE PENTECOST
WILL ALONE
RASCAL’S WAGER
THAT’S GOING TO LEAVE A MARK
BRAVE AND CONSTANT HEARTS
PHOENIX AND GOLEM
PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAIN
GREAT, GREY TOMORROW
SHADOWBOX DRAGONS
THE SEARCHING FOR A DREAM
THE RESOLVE OF AN EARNEST LOVER, ADRIFT
TITAN
SHADOWS IN THE SHADE
THE PHILOSOPHY OF DREAMS
THE SPHERE IS FACETED
SHE DANCES AWAY WHEN I AWAKE
HAUNTED
SISYPHUS AND PROMETHEUS
THE JESTER OF HEARTS
DEEP AND HUNGRY POCKETS
IN THE SHADOWS OF AN ANCIENT CITY
FLESH FAILS
ELYSIUM’S ILLUSIONS
PONDERING THE DARKNESS
VOLITION
I WILL SLEEP ALONE
INFIDELITY
EVOLVING INDIFFERENCE
ALAS, THE FLOWERS WILTED
OF FALLEN AND FALLING ANGELS
A VILE ATTAR
AMONGST THE CASTLED ROCKS (a cycle, includes:)
THE WOUND
DRAIN ME DRY
THE TASTE OF YOUR LIPS
A TRICK OF THE STONE
SHELTER IN THE CLIFFS
HER WAY INTO MY LAIR
LEGENDS, PAINTED IN FADING PIGMENTS
NO ANGEL CALLS
TORN FROM THE FLESH
NONE BUT THE PHOENIX
RISE
RONIN IN THE TEMPLE OF APHRODITE (a cycle, includes:)
A RONIN IN THE TEMPLE OF APHRODITE
CAN YOU KISS WITH CONSCIENCE?
I SEE YOU IN COLOURS PERFECT
HOW ACHE MY HANDS
SHALL I UNLEASH THE DRAGON?
FEED FIRE TO THE PHOENIX
RONIN IN THE TEMPLE OF APHRODITE (REPRISE)
TRANSUBSTATIATION, PART THREE
HOLD THE BRIDGE
BACKSTAB
THE FAERIE: STRANGE BUT BEAUTIFUL
GLASS ROSES
TOPKNOT

You might recognize a few of the pieces, but most will be strange even to the most devoted reader. These are as exciting and elite of a collection of his works as I have seen, just brutally earnest works from which the pain and hope and dreams and despair rise off of like the fragrance of a corpse lily, beautiful but troubling.

He still isn't letting me see who it is dedicated to...damn him.