The Moira Cycle

<p>Is its meaning Margot Moira Mother or the mileage between lovers?Zeus the lightning thrower has advised his son of no fame to <I>publish twenty books/of praiseworthy poems/</I> before getting back to him...</p><p>Now in Geoff Peterson's latest an aging Adonis is challenged by an on-again/off-again affair in his annual cycle of four months in transit four months of frolic with his beloved and four months of grief and self-appraisal.</p><p>In the country of Sex & Death the poet's dilemma remains the age-old riddle: how to occupy two planes of existence at once without upsetting the table. In <I>Moira</I> everything's a sign pointing to the goddess. In the words of the oracle A man cannot help who he loves. <I>Moira</I> reminds us that to fall in love is to catch the red-eye to the Land of Shadows.</p><p>Peterson is a sensitive with a keen eye for commitment to place and his <I>Moira Cycle</I> a challenge and not for the faint of heart. -Andy Vinca</p>