The Cycle: A Poetry Sequence

Every love story is secretly a myth. The Cycle just admits it.For readers of Ocean Vuong's raw confessional intensity, Nikita Gill's mythological poetry, and dark romantic verse that holds nothing back.A man burns through six mythological faces before he finds the one that's actually his. Thoth, who begins in silence and ends there again, healed; Orpheus, who loses the very thing he tries to save; Dionysus, consumed by his own hunger; Apollo, twice - chasing what keeps pulling away, then left with nothing but the wreckage of a paradise he built in his own head, alone.Across from him moves a woman who is never simply his reflection. She provokes, she suffers, she leaves - on her own terms, toward whatever freedom is still hers to take.In the paperback edition - original color portraits for every god, and for the woman who moves beside him through every act. Bonus: every print copy includes a QR code linking to a free interactive digital edition - illustrated, animated, and yours to keep.Inside this collection: - 50+ poems, one continuous emotional arc - not a scattered anthology- Six mythic movements: Thoth, Orpheus, Dionysus, Apollo (Longing), Apollo (Broken), Thoth the Healer- Katabasis § Captive - a seven-part descent through mythic figures of ruin- One shape poem, "To the Pyre," typeset to visually burn down the page