Dan Lukiv

The Neighbour, poetry Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition (entitled The Neighbour): LukivPress (Canada), 2021.

An excerpt

The Neighbour

He prunes and weeds and-

He's gift-wrapped
With "please" and "thank you"
And silk ties,

His wife counts fat-grams
On a rosary,
And his two children
Ride the honor roll.

But he does not like himself-
That's his secret.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.