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The Cycle: A Poetry Sequence
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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
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