'the taste of shadow' is Volume 1 of Poems for Inner Rooms and the sub-title for this book is 'night journal'. If you are intrigued with the night and all its myriad and seductive offerings, then this volume will take you on a journey into the dark of thoughts. Why not be an armchair Hopper and observe the noir of mindscape ?Here is one example from this volume :-say you foundfootstepsin virgin snowcoming outof the mausoleumThis book of 90 poems belongs to a collection of life journals written as contemporary haiku and tanka. These are poems for inner rooms. They take poetry into the realm of spirit and are touched by zen, loss, joy, the surreal, temps perdu, the erotic, humour, truth, the everyday, and the sublime. All the six senses are here.The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems.ai li ‘s poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, and Japan. She has also created several original linked forms akin to renku aka renga. She lives quietly and mindfully in London and writes in a rousseau inspired dream yard watched over by three old stone buddhas. ai li is the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line.