If all the world is indeed a stage and men and women merely players, then THE BLOOM is the play. Life’s billion year soliloquy and man’s supporting role is told in five parts, the five acts of a play, and the five stages of a growing flower:Part I The Garden the origins of the universe prepare the soil for the evolution of manPart II The Seed the discovery of agriculture and the seed of civilizationPart III The Roots one man’s quest from Persia to India to seek the mysteries of mathematicsPart IV The Synthesis one woman’s search for light, truth, and redemption in a ruined worldPart V The Bloom the blossoming of the journey to the very ends of timeIn the ancient tradition of epic poetry, The Bloom is told in a lyrical series of nearly 3,000 lines of poetry; inter-rhyming couplets, a unbroken stream of double-helix verse, the genetic rhyming code of Life’s immense vanquishing of Time.It is ultimately a spiritual journey, both individual and collective.The Bloom is David Coyle’s first book.