

Battling unfriendly allies as much as his enemies, he plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a much more powerful frigate, only to see victory snatched from his grasp by the resolution of the opposing captain. He is also the author of the award-winning Pirates of the Narrow Seas series of gay naval adventure novels.Isam Rais, captain of the xebec, 'Sea Leopard, ' is on a swashbuckling adventure in the Mediterranean Sea. He has edited and authored several other books of poetry and a major journal, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He is the editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, a log he kept in verse form of several extended trips aboard a skipjack. His publications include over 1200 tanka poems in six languages and ten countries.

He lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He is also the author of the award-winning Pirates of the Narrow Seas series of M.

