Arrows of Desire Author:Michael Dennis Arrows of Desire revels in the smells and sound of sex. Michael tip-toes on the boundary between romance and horny pornography. The "perfect body" in these poems isn't that of a Greek god or goddess; it is a love-handled, sweat-slathered, flushed and blotchy human body in middle age perfected by its surrender to desire. And the desire for desire... more » haunts these poems; "the cruel passion of the little death/that defeats us all."« less